Christian Affolter wrote: > Hi, > > at the moment I'm in the process of planing/deploying an infrastructure > environment based on gentoo (infrastructure servers and clients). > > The infrastructure should mainly be based on the famous > infrastructure.org paper. > > I'm planning to have a "gold-server" with pre-compile binary packages, > as well as the related configuration files. Those divided into different > host groups (web, mail etc.). > All of the above should be under version control. > > Hence my questions related to this topic: > What approaches/tools are you using (for example for host installation, > application/configuration management, ad hoc changes etc.)? > > Is it wise to use the gentoo specific tools (like emerge) on the > clients, or do you prefer more "generalized" tools?
Once I find time, I was hoping to get the gentoo server project working on such tools. If you do write a nice tool for servers, please let us know and maybe we could include it in portage! > Well, one specific question I have a the moment is how to strip down a > gentoo system to it's base system. So that it doesn't contains any > development tools/dependencies (compilers, dev-libs, etc.)? Since I > would like to use binary packages on the clients. I haven't personally done that, but I think a few folks on here have. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operational Manager --- Public GPG key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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