[PLUG] network "make install" ?

Randal L. Schwartz merlyn at stonehenge.com
Wed Feb 10 17:55:13 UTC 2010


>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> writes:

Keith> In an environment of five or six homogenous machines, repeated
Keith> "download, unpack, make, make install" process is time consuming.
Keith> I suppose I should learn to build packages, and it would be a
Keith> little easier.  

You might bite the bullet and look at something like cfengine
or puppet.  Either of them will help you centralize your administration,
allowing you to specify once everything that is common (including
fetching those files from a central location), and specify the unique
parts of each setup.

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