On 2019-11-28 13:20, james wrote: > My specific (eventual) goal is to communicate/manage a wide variety of > gentoo systems, from servers & workstations to a myriad of embedded > and 5G minimal gentoo systems; particularly those on embedded > processors that have modest resources.
I have no "wide variety" of systems - more like 5, and only one of them runs gentoo. I use git to keep track of configuration changes. One git repository for each of /etc, ~/.config, and /usr/local. I wrote a simple distributed command script to execute changes; the script connects via ssh to each affected system (in parallel) and checks out new git commits from a central repository. There are prepackaged solutions for this kind of thing, look for etckeeper and propellor. But I found they either had annoying misfeatures (etckeeper insists on tracking _all_ files under /etc) or were overkill for my modest needs. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
