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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