[TriLUG] sharing kernel source trees?

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

OK here's a good one :

I have several machines here at the house :
moltress, a PPro 200 and my firewall
eevee, a DEC Multia Alpha
pikachu, a P3 600
snorlax, a Toshiba techra 8000

Now, at the moment, if I want to update them all to the latest kernel,
I download the source onto moltress, untar it on all four systems, and
do the make tasks.

I'm wondering, though, is it possible to use a shared source tree and
a symlink to .config for all of these systems? 

Say I do this :

on moltress, I create an NFS Mount to /usr/local/kernel
I untar the kernel source there
I then symlink /usr/local/kernel/.config to /etc/kernel-config

On each of the machines, I create /etc/kernel-config with each
system's configuration

I then mount the kernel tree and run "make oldconfig dep bzImage
modules" for each system (*NOT* simultaneously!!)

Has anyone done this? Good idea/bad idea? 

Anyone have any good ways of doing automatic kernel builds on multiple
systems?

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