On 11/29/2011 12:37 PM, Thomas Burns wrote: > I've been thinking about ways to proceed if I need to set up 5 > machines with basically identical software but somewhat variable > hardware. A simple approach would be to just set up my golden system > and clone the disk, but the hardware differences would probably cause > problems. > > One approach that appeals to me is to install minimal centos on the > first system, add a few rpms after installation, do my desired config > file tweaks, then somehow generate an rpm that depends on all the > post-install rpms and contains my custom versions of the config files > I tweaked. Then, to set up the other 4 systems, I'd use the kickstart > file from the first, then yum localinstall my custom rpm, which would > install all the dependencies and tweak all the config files. I assume > the centos install would deal with the hardware differences. Does this > idea make sense? What happens when two different rpms want to provide > the same config file? > > Are there any other simple alternatives I have overlooked? What is the > best practice when setting up identical software on multiple systems > with heterogeneous hardware? If I was doing a thousand machines, i would build an RPM to do it ... otherwise with just 4, I would just use this on the original: rpm -qa > somefile rsync somefile to the other machines and then: yum install $(cat somefile) I would then rsync the config files from the other machine to the new one.
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