Re: setting up an apt repository
Renai LeMay <renail@ausisp.net> writes:
> At our company, I administer a network of Unix/Linux machines. Basically,
> we're looking at setting up a series of debian machines in many different
> locations, providing services to local users.
>
> What we'd like to do, is set up one machine as a debian template, if you
> like. We'd like to be able to create other machines from this machine, with a
> certain package set, and every time this template machine gets updated with
> security patches etc, the rest of the machines should be able to download
> those patches from the template machine. I think this can be done somehow
> with apt and apt-able package repositories, but I'm not sure of the
> specifics. The template machine must be able to handle debian source packages
> also.
>
> The machines must be based on a 2.2 kernel, so we're thinking of using potato
> as a base, and loading only the packages we need onto this template machine.
>
> can anyone suggest a method by which this can be done, and point me to
> relevant URLs or HOWTO's?
Thomas Lange<lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de> has written a piece of
software called FAI (fully automatic installation) to automate setting
up debian on a network of computers. I haven't used it, but it looks
promising. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download.
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Bruce Mobarry
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