Alec Ten Harmsel <alec <at> alectenharmsel.com> writes:
> Assuming that disks are formatted, a stage3 has been freshly extracted, > bossman is installed, and the role/config files are on a mounted > filesystem, it should be similar to the role below: I think the list needs to be expanded, generically first: /var/lib/portage/world /etc/* /usr/local/* just to name a few to clone a system. I'll work on a comprehensive list of require and optional. > Automating the bootstrapping of a node is reasonably complicted, even > harder on Gentoo than on RHEL. This is the type of thinking I want to > do, and I'm working on doing this with my CentOS box that runs ssh, > Jenkins, postgres, and Redmine. I'm going to work through the ansible gentoo install method previously outlined. Once I try that for new installs, it should be easy to add what robust workstaion has added since it was installed, as the second step in the process. That way, part A of the install is a raw/virgin install on new (wiped) hardware. part B would be to upgrade that virgin install to basically be a clone of an existing workstation. This all requires similar if not identical hardware, which is a common occurrence in large installation environment.
