From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875D41381F3 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77D61E0B12; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:28:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from uberouter3.guranga.net (unknown [78.25.223.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 877B6E0AD9 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:28:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.151.100] (unknown [192.168.151.100]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by uberouter3.guranga.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F06E3160007 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:28:41 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <5249D0E9.3030703@thegeezer.net> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:28:41 +0100 From: thegeezer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130804 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware References: <524358B0.1060000@gmail.com> <52449C1A.5000306@gmail.com> <5245E03A.2020605@gmail.com> <52489438.3090405@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 12301646-953a-41a2-a0a9-4a61be7e9cec X-Archives-Hash: 7b49e8fc53f238d6a6f17642f0068cb8 On 09/30/2013 06:31 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Keeping all of the laptops 100% identical as far as hardware is >>> central to this plan. I know I'm setting myself up for big problems >>> otherwise. >>> >>> I'm hoping I can emerge every package on my laptop that every other >>> laptop needs. That way I can fix any build problems and update any >>> config files right on my own system. Then I would push config file >>> differences to all of the other laptops. Then each laptop could >>> emerge its own stuff unattended. >> I see what you desire now - essentially you want to clone your laptop >> (or big chunks of it) over to your other workstations. > That sounds about right. > >> To get a feel for how it works, visit puppet's web site and download >> some of the test appliances they have there and run them in vm software. >> Set up a server and a few clients, and start experimenting in that >> sandbox. You'll quickly get a feel for how it all hangs together (it's >> hard to describe in text how puppet gets the job done, so much easier to >> do it for real and watch the results) > Puppet seems like overkill for what I need. I think all I really need > is something to manage config file differences and user accounts. At > this point I'm thinking I shouldn't push packages themselves, but > portage config files and then let each laptop emerge unattended based > on those portage configs. I'm going to bring this to the 'salt' > mailing list to see if it might be a good fit. It seems like a much > lighter weight application. > > I'm soaking up a lot of your time (again). I'll return with any real > Gentoo questions I run into and to run down the final plan before I > execute it. Thanks so much for your help. Not sure what I'd do > without you. :) > > - Grant > maybe someone could chip in re: experience with distributed compilation and cached compiles? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc http://ccache.samba.org/ this may be closer to what you are looking for ?