I have a lot of gnuradio and uhd configured nodes around the world.  Up
until now, we have managed them with a mix of simple configuration
management and individual maintenance.  However, I'd like to move on to
using something more robust, like SaltStack, Fabric, etc.  I am aware of
Puppet and Chef as well.

Installing most packages is easy with these tools, but gnuradio and uhd
pose a unique problem, at least right now.  For us, it is desirable to
deploy a specific version of gnuradio and uhd.

Currently, that is possible with the build-gnuradio script, but it requires
some interaction that makes automatically deploying many nodes difficult
without modifying the script (which may be a valid solution).

The deb repos hosted by Ettus are awesome, but as far as I know, I can't
run something like sudo apt-get install gnuradio=3.6.3 to explicitly point
to a certain release.  If I use the master repo and do an update when 3.7
comes out, gnuradio and uhd might get updated before we adjust our code
base for the new API.

We could also build directly from the git repos, but the build-gnuradio
script handles that so well, that I will ignore this possibility.

For now, perhaps the best option is to just locally cache the debs we need
and push them.

Has anyone else dealt with this problem and found a good solution?

Thanks!

Very Respectfully,

Dan CaJacob
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