Re: [CentOS] how to install standard software on systems with heterogeneous hardware?

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Scot P. Floess sfloess@nc.rr.com wrote:

You could setup Cobbler and koan install the other machines from the Cobbler server.

Cobbler uses a nice templating engine (Cheetah) and I've managed to use that within the kickstart file Cobbler serves up to specify packages to install for a given machine.  So for example on Machine A, I can have the foo package installed and on Machine B install the bar package...

Cobbler even supports PXE booting clients to get installs started...

How long does it take to learn the templating language compared to sshing to a few machines in separate windows and pasting in a 'yum install list_of_packages' command?