On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:34:27PM -0700, quigstah@gmail.com wrote: > Hey Folks! > > I'm in the process of rolling out a rather large grid of Linux nodes, > many of which are Debian. I'm having some difficulties in automating > certain aspects of my Debian roll-outs, and I'm hoping you can provide > some insight. > > The issue in brief: I'm trying to fully automate apt-get. I have a > detailed procedure as to what packages are put in place, and > configurations are copied over in an automated way. I want to > normalize the pkgs installed on these machines via apt-get, in a > non-interactive way. For example, I've been using something like: > > apt-get -y -q=2 --force-yes install <pkg> > > This works alright, but still requires user interaction for a few > packages. How does one go about forcing, without exception, apt-get to > proceed without human input? > > Thanks so much for your help! > Have you considered systemimager and flamethrower? Setup one client, create an image, netboot all the other clients off the image server and have them pull a pre-configured image? You can then twek the configs based on hostname/ip address. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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