[gentoo-user] Re: CI Continuous Integration

2014-12-17 Thread James
to be firmly in either camp; but more in the conventional distro camp. What I did find interesting is lots of corporations are running on hundreds of gentoo systems and using (chef, puppet, ansible or salt) to ease the management of large gentoo deployments. It's just nice to know that despite what

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-25 Thread Bruce Schultz
is. The 3rd task is more in the realm of tools such as ansible or puppet. Having that said, and having done few Gentoo installations: I'm merely wishing installing Gentoo wasn't such a lengthy process. It's lengthy in that you have to do the steps manually while browsing the excellent handbook

[gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-22 Thread Dale
upgrades, 5 new, 1 in new slot, 879 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 94,583 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package Then again, emerge -evp does show 5 new packages. I'm like that little puppet of Jeff Dunham's, 'what the he**'? Maybe I need to go back a version of portage. LOL Thoughts? I say thoughts

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean won't work anymore.

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Thomas
slot, 879 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 94,583 kB Fetch Restriction: 1 package Then again, emerge -evp does show 5 new packages. I'm like that little puppet of Jeff Dunham's, 'what the he**'? Maybe I need to go back a version of portage. LOL Thoughts? I say thoughts cause I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-09-26 Thread Grant
and push its entire install to all of the other laptops via rsync whenever it changes? The only things that would vary by laptop would be users and configuration. Maybe puppet could help with that? It would almost be like my own distro. Some laptops would have stuff installed that they don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Kerin Millar
LAN also lead to unstable behavior and frustration. Only last week I re-attacked this topic as I start using puppet here to manage my systems ... and one part of this might be sharing /usr/portage via NFSv4. One client host mounts it without a problem, the thinkpads don't do so ... just another

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
for understanding ... my various efforts to set up NFSv4 for sharing stuff in my LAN also lead to unstable behavior and frustration. Only last week I re-attacked this topic as I start using puppet here to manage my systems ... and one part of this might be sharing /usr/portage via NFSv4

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-28 Thread behrouz khosravi
your search for understanding ... my various efforts to set up NFSv4 for sharing stuff in my LAN also lead to unstable behavior and frustration. Only last week I re-attacked this topic as I start using puppet here to manage my systems ... and one part of this might be sharing /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

2015-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
red herring. If your user account is weak, I have to assume so is your root account - apart from UID=0 there is no difference between them. Hopefully you use Puppet or friends so you set up a decent template once and the system ensures it stays that way. No having to check if user accounts really are stil

[gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-28 Thread James
. There are some NDA, if you violate, your ass is dead. Linus a showboat and making some serious cash, keeping the public focused on linux (mindshare) and playing as puppet as the big boys joust behind the scenes. From a modeling point of view, the gyrations of the linux kernel, chipset's hidden features

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
and is often limited to who can use those chipsets. There are some NDA, if you violate, your ass is dead. Linus a showboat and making some serious cash, keeping the public focused on linux (mindshare) and playing as puppet as the big boys joust behind the scenes. question: do you think the moon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
) will be insufficient. On gentoo planet one of the devs has Consul in his overlays. Read up on that for ideas that may be relevant to what you need. Assuming the following is the website: http://www.consul.io/intro/vs/ Then this seems more a tool to replace Nagios, Puppet and similar. It doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CI Continuous Integration

2014-12-17 Thread Sam Bishop
some of the other more common distros. Folks seem to be firmly in either camp; but more in the conventional distro camp. What I did find interesting is lots of corporations are running on hundreds of gentoo systems and using (chef, puppet, ansible or salt) to ease the management of large gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-27 Thread Bruce Schultz
bin-pkg repository and install a minimum of packages to help with configuration, such a git and puppet or cf-engine. I'm not sure if ansible needs to be installed, but it would need at least to have the network and ssh configured. I have done many more gentoo installs into a chroot than I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-26 Thread James
-1 needs of those with sufficient *nix skills to benefit from installation automation. The 3rd task is more in the realm of tools such as ansible or puppet. Step 3 already exists in rudimentary form:: Both Sephan and Alan have posted on using ansible

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread lee
ss to the machine. > > This is where management tools come into play. (Same methods apply to > physical > and virtual) > > When talking MS Windows, domains with their policies are very useful. Couple > that with WSUS for the patching and software distribution tools for the >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
ividually, in lack of a better way. Per user when it comes to > setting up their MUAs and the like, in lack of any better way. It > doesn't make a difference if it's a VM or not, provided that you have > remote access to the machine. This is where management tools come into play. (Sa

Re: [gentoo-user] moving over to nouveau drivers [solved]

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
org.freedesktop.Telepathy.ConnectionManager.haze[3518]: tp-glib-Message: Exiting Dez 15 16:24:22 hiro.local puppet-agent[773]: Could not request certificate: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known [ 904.545] This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation. It is not supported

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