From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G5FVj-0005cJ-TR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:31:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6P5U6Tk006300; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:30:06 GMT Received: from imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.68]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6P5NmCF010987 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:23:49 GMT Received: from ibm64aec.bellsouth.net ([68.221.208.188]) by imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060725052347.UTWD18287.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@ibm64aec.bellsouth.net> for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:23:47 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (really [68.221.208.188]) by ibm64aec.bellsouth.net with ESMTP id <20060725052345.IDHK12906.ibm64aec.bellsouth.net@[127.0.0.1]> for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:23:45 -0400 Message-ID: <44C5AADB.1010107@bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 00:23:39 -0500 From: "Matthew R. King" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to create my own linux distribution References: <20060718094408.11578.qmail@web37707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20060718121426.104990@gmx.net> <200607180835.37263.gentoo.org@machturtle.com> <306bf010607240057w62c8ccdeg971120f1199822d0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <306bf010607240057w62c8ccdeg971120f1199822d0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0630-1, 07/24/2006), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 59e4a75a-c427-4868-b94a-de791b7e2d7d X-Archives-Hash: 6b4d989c14dba3b0920c2b5d775a0d5e Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > 2006/7/18, David Corbin >: > > Not wanting to hijack the thread from the OP, but this subject > interests me > for the following reason. I work on a software system where one > customer has > about 10000 systems at about 500 locations. Remote systems are > categorized > as one of 3 types/configurations. Automated management of them is > essential, > including upgrades, but seldom upgrades "to the latest and > greatest" as > stability is very important. Upgrades need to "just work", and > not require > manual intervention. Currently, they're all on Windows in one form or > another (ugh!). The systems in question have very limited > capabilities, and > the people on site have very limited permissions. > > Other potential customers have similar size systems, and I > certainly expect > someone to realize the value of Linux for this. I'd like to have > a solution > in my mind when the time comes. > > I've considered the idea of a custom distribution to do > this. There is no > doubt in my mind, that any such distribtuion would be based on an > existing > one, with tweaks that deal with where updates come from, and what > packages > are availble, etc. Gentoo or Debian are the two likely > candidates. I'm not > *sure* a customized distribution is appropriate. > > > I think you should take a look at: > > http://www.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html > http://www.cfengine.org/ > > > Best regards > Jose http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list