Ah OK - sorry if I misunderstood you...
I definitely see your point. I suppose for me if I have to do something
more than once, I like automation (like Cobbler). I do a ton of
tinkering, trashing machines, spinning up VMs, etc - it just became
tedious. Truth be known - initially I spent sooo much time learning
Cobbler. But that time has since paid off...
Quite honestly, the way Cobbler is structured - the templating is so very
easy to learn...I think I spent one morning reading up on it and I was
proficient enough to denote packages for any given machine (really why I
responded in the first place)...
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Scot P. Floess <sfloess@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I seriously recommend it :) Sorry, I wasn't sure if Les' response was
overly sarcastic ;)
No, I was just wondering about the tradeoff in time spent learning yet
another system-specific template language vs just executing the
commands directly (in windows, in parallel so you don't have to
wait...). For 100+ similar machines I'd expect it to be worth it.
Not that automation isn't good, but if you have the list of packages
you want to install in the first place, it's not all that hard to do
it yourself.
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