Ah OK - sorry if I misunderstood you... I definitely see your point. I suppose for me if I have to do something more than once, I like automation (like Cobbler). I do a ton of tinkering, trashing machines, spinning up VMs, etc - it just became tedious. Truth be known - initially I spent sooo much time learning Cobbler. But that time has since paid off... Quite honestly, the way Cobbler is structured - the templating is so very easy to learn...I think I spent one morning reading up on it and I was proficient enough to denote packages for any given machine (really why I responded in the first place)... > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Scot P. Floess <sfloess at nc.rr.com> wrote: >> I seriously recommend it :) Sorry, I wasn't sure if Les' response was >> overly sarcastic ;) > > No, I was just wondering about the tradeoff in time spent learning yet > another system-specific template language vs just executing the > commands directly (in windows, in parallel so you don't have to > wait...). For 100+ similar machines I'd expect it to be worth it. > Not that automation isn't good, but if you have the list of packages > you want to install in the first place, it's not all that hard to do > it yourself. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare