All my config files are in Subversion, but I want to capture the commands to 
set up the distros, repos, profiles, and systems

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in 
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

----- Harry Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote:
> While maybe not "clonable" when building a brand new cobbler server I 
> use root's .bash_history to guide me through what I've done.
> 
> For every config file I edit I always issue the command "cp $file 
> $file-`date -I`" so I have the original to diff against to know exactly 
> what changes were made.
> 
> Once done building the new cobbler server I take the history file, 
> remove all of the things that are uneccesary (ls; pwd; etc) and put full 
> paths on file and commands I've used the write all of this out to our wiki.
> 
> It works pretty well even when you don't get to document for days or 
> weeks after you've finished the build.
> 
> Cheers,
> Harry
> 
> On 10/19/2011 09:00 AM, Dan White wrote:
> > I agree, replicate is a great way to "clone" the existing server, but I am 
> > tasked to record the steps it took to create the server such that someone 
> > else could do it.
> >
> > Such info could be used to make a separate server for a different group for 
> > a different project by tweaking parameters.
> >
> > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere 
> > in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
> > Bill Waterson (Calvin&  Hobbes)
> >
> > ----- James Cammarata<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >>
> >> Cobbler replicate is definitely the way to go, or if you use some kind
> >> of SAN replication like SRDF you can store all of your data on a
> >> replicated LUN.
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