Tim Alberts wrote: > I'm setting up multiple systems and ideally I want the same package > configuration on all of them. So I'm going through yum and rpm > queries manually to try and get this done. There must be a better > way. Is there a way to use yum or rpm to configure multiple systems > with the same packages? > > If yum or rpm has something native built into it to do this, that > would be great. If there's some scripts to simplify some tasks that > works too. > > I've used webmin's 'Cluster Software Package' module, and will > probably fall back to it. However I don't think I get the info that > yum gives regarding package grouping and what packages are part of > what capabilities. Gotta query elsewhere for it. (no disrespect to > webmin folks, great tool) Checkout puppet[1], cfengine[2], and maybe func[3]. If you only care about getting the initial installs identical, then kickstart[4] may be all you need. [1] http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet [2] http://www.cfengine.org/ [3] https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/func/ [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Left to Her own devices, nature cures stupidity.
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