I am looking for a good starting point to learning how to manage groups
of machines. We have around a dozen or so machines most of them running
Fedora Core 2. Because of stability issues that I have run into I am
trying to come up with a migration plan to gentoo. My fear is that
administration of these machine will quickly get out of hand.
I have heard of ways to more easily manage large numbers of machines and
am looking for a nudge in the right direction.
thank you.
Regards,
Sean
I can't give you any pointers, but few hints:
- Set your CHOST, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS to match your older box (obviously don't apply if you have different ARCHs).
- Set up a centralized rsync mirror, then point all your client using SYNC="rsync://your.internal.server/gentoo-portage" in /etc/make.conf
- idem for /usr/portage/distfiles , share it via nfs or similar
- you may want or not set up distcc (distribuited compiling), it make things faster, but require maintenaince.
- when you finish your first installattion, create a stage4, maybe in the forum it has already discussed, make it with love, make much faster install new box
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