installation.
Would be grateful for some advice!
I think the "best" answer depends upon the scale of your installation.
I have a SOHO network with a dozen or so Debian, Windows, macOS, and iOS
clients, a FreeBSD/ZFS CVS, SSH, and Samba server, and a FreeBSD/ZFS
backup server.
Hi all,
Sorry to resurrect an old-ish thread, but I am facing the exact same
task, minus the know-how.
Basically I am looking to pre-configure a number of Debian setups -
let's say, "server", "laptop" and "PC" - that would contain sets of
packages to install (or uninstall), configuration files (
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:40 PM Mike Castle wrote:
> Thanks for all of the commentary so far.
>
> Once I get something working, I will *try* to remember to follow up
> here with what I've managed to cobble together.
I have done quite a bit of research and experimentation and finally
settled on a
Mike Castle writes:
Hah!
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00042.html
Yes, that was me > 10a ago. Transitioning from these scripts to ant allowed
came with a few improvements:
* I switched all package building to `debuild` in favor of using more
low-level tools for `raw` p
Hi,
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 04:40:24PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> Like Alex, one of my physical machines is a laptop that is not always
> on the home network. Though I'm usually connected to *something*.
> I'm still debating whether to bother with a VPN or trying something
> like a tailnet.
For
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024, Mike Castle wrote:
Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up various config
files that I currently do manually, for example, the `/etc/apt/*`
configs I need to make the above work. For a single set of files,
manual isn't bad, but as I want to get into setting up
Hah!
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/08/msg00042.html
On 21/04/2024 08:40, Mike Castle wrote:
One thing Linux-Fan mentioned was `config-package-dev`. In my OP, I
commented about ``slightly old to really old tools'', and that was one
I was thinking of. It looks like it hasn't been touched in seven
years, and I wasn't sure if it still worked. But t
Thanks for all the suggestions so far.
Like Alex, one of my physical machines is a laptop that is not always
on the home network. Though I'm usually connected to *something*.
I'm still debating whether to bother with a VPN or trying something
like a tailnet.
Heck, before I adopted Debian and ran
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 05:05:14PM -0700, Mike Castle wrote:
> Anyway, suggestions based upon actually experience would be appreciated.
As others have mentioned, Ansible can be a good choice for as little
as one machine as long as you don't object to installing Python and
a bunch of Python ap
Mike Castle writes:
For a while now, I've been using `equivs-build` for maintaining a
hierarchy of metapackages to control what is installed on my various
machines. Generally, I can do `apt install mrc-$(hostname -s)` and
I'm golden.
Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up variou
Hi,
> > and so on, it is time to explore solutions. I only have four systems
> > at the moment (two physical and two virtual), so I don't think I need
> > something too fancy.
I am in the same situation with an extra constraint: some are laptops
and not always connected.
> > My first thought wa
Mike Castle wrote:
> and so on, it is time to explore solutions. I only have four systems
> at the moment (two physical and two virtual), so I don't think I need
> something too fancy.
>
> My first thought was to simply add a `Files:` section to *.control
> files I use for my metapackages. Afte
For a while now, I've been using `equivs-build` for maintaining a
hierarchy of metapackages to control what is installed on my various
machines. Generally, I can do `apt install mrc-$(hostname -s)` and
I'm golden.
Now, I would like to expand that into also setting up various config
files that I c
Hi there,
My new book Configuration Management: Standard Requirements is out, get it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/86hqr1454ovgdqw/CM_Configuration_Management.pdf?dl=0
My goal is to get in front of anyone who will benefit from it. - perhaps you
will be able to help more
t to think of this. might be cool, it
just doesn't look mature or that it has a niche or anything...
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Karl Vogel wrote:
>>> On Fri, 6 May 2011 19:56:01 -0400,
>>> shawn wilson said:
>
> S> i'm looking at using some type of co
oking to get from the output of a config run ?
IMHO, if you are using configuration management software the process
should be kinda as follows:
Have a method of creating consistent base installs (for Debian, probably
preseed).
Create clean machine based on that.
Run configuration management tool.
P
> debian specific. i'm looking at using some type of configuration
> management software. i have never used any of this software before, i
> just think i'm outgrowing svn and scp :)
>
> i've found this wiki:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_
not sure how topical this here - as i'm not looking for anything
debian specific. i'm looking at using some type of configuration
management software. i have never used any of this software before, i
just think i'm outgrowing svn and scp :)
i've found this wiki:
http://e
martin f krafft wrote:
> I administer some 20 servers and it's a pain to keep something
> like the various postfix configurations up to par. What I'd love to
> do is use CVS, but it stores no permission/user information. There's
> cvs-conf, but it's not documented and thus crap.
As opposed to poin
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.15.1956 +0100]:
> Do you guys know of better tools to manage a configuration across
> multiple servers?
cfengine2? i even know the author. are there alternatives?
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I administer some 20 servers and it's a pain to keep something
like the various postfix configurations up to par. What I'd love to
do is use CVS, but it stores no permission/user information. There's
cvs-conf, but it's not documented and thus crap.
Do you guys know of better tools to manage a conf
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote:
> I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under
> CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it
> yet.
>
> My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use
> the branch sy
I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under
CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it
yet.
My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use
the branch system. If a certain file needed a specific change, branch
off (on that f
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> * CVS (the remote protocol) doesn't track file permissions,
>ownership and symbolic links.
In ftp://ftp.pn.com/pub/bb/cvsmapfs you'll find a workaround:
# Purpose:
#
# It would be extremely useful to store an entire UNIX u
Hi Jean Pierre,
Thanks for your follow-up. Looks like you've stumbled across the same
limitations I have. You probably know that PreservePermissions could
be of some help with permissions, ownerships and symlinks and that it
does not work in a client/server set up :-(
But there's another thing
On 28 Feb 2000, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> However, I'm not really happy with this way of doing things. I'd like
> to hear about some other ways. I've toyed with the idea of using CVS,
> archiving /etc and making a local package. Slightly related, I'm also
> looking for ways to quickly clone a sy
Hi all,
Up to now, I've been managing my system's configuration in a rather ad
hoc kind of fashion: configuration during installation, fine-tuning it
with with the set-up/configuration utilities that come with a package
(or as a separate package) and roughly document what I did in a normal
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