[Linux-disciples] Deb and sudo

[Dylan Thurston]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:46:00PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:41:52PM -0500, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > You could just make a meta-package that depends on all the packages you
> > want, put it in your own apt repository, and apt-get that (apt-get
> > install lanielspackage or whatever).
> 
> Now that is a neat idea. I think I'll do that.
> 
> I also want to work on more automation stuff -- e.g.,
> configuring a bunch of machines to use NIS, and setting up
> every machine for static IPs. The latter involves a
> different config file on every machine (different
> /etc/network/interfaces), whereas the former is basically
> the same file on every machine (pointing to the same NIS
> server). What's the 'best practice' for large deployments
> when some files vary from machine to machine in a
> predictable way? There must be some quick way to do this
> without going into /etc/network on every machine, then going
> into /etc/fstab and adding the same mount points to every
> machine, &c. The problem can be alleviated some by adding
> custom NIS maps, but ... what do people recommend?

I'm pretty sure there are some nice packages for dealing with this.  I
think fai ("fully automated install") may be one.  I think Progeny had
another.

Peace,
	Dylan
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