Custom system building

Bart?omiej Rutkowski brutkowski at lerkins.com
Fri Aug 25 08:59:45 EDT 2006


Hi,

I  have an idea, that I need to achieve and I was wondering if I could 
use Tinderbox to take the goals.
Basicaly, what I need it some kind of enviroment to build custom FreeBSD 
system, that is lean, clean and stripped (for example, no toolchains, no 
sendmail, no gcc, no isdn, no bind and so on, all customizable) then 
build some packages for it (like apache, mysql, postfix, all 
customizable) on one strong and fast machine to use it for deploying on 
several other identical machines. The point is to create build&deploy 
system, so I could have the same system on each machine, or group of 
machines, so I could control what packages and/or parts of base systems 
are in each group. The deployment would by something like booting the 
machine from fdd/cd/flash setting up nfs and then installing the 
prebuild system to the hdd. Is it possible to make with tinderbox? Maybe 
someone has already done that or know better solution? Maybe I could 
achieve easily first part of the goal, that is building complete custom 
system with packeges?

Thanks for any help and advice, it would be very appreciated,
with kind regards,
Bartek Rutkowski


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