Folks -- Eric Sammer (esammer) has been working hard on an automated installer for the gentoo-server project. As Eric says in the docs[1], "The idea is to make building and installing Gentoo servers fast, predictable, and unattended in larger environments."
GSDS supports the idea of machine profiles, such as 'web', 'ftp', 'file', etc. You can define your own profiles to suit your needs. Profiles are simple xml documents that store information such as stage tarballs that should be used, USE variables, CFLAGS, etc. At this point, the installer is beta quality and needs plenty of testing and feedback to help get it finalized and released. Anyone who is interested, please download the latest version[2] and try it out. --kurt [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gsds/ [2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~esammer/gsds/downloads/gsds-20040109-1.tar.bz2
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