Am 15.05.2006 um 10:32 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:49:00AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...snip...] > > Custom *packages* is probably more on-topic for debian-mentors, but I don't > think that custom packages are the right solution. > Sorry for that. > > What would be the best (cleanest, most debian-like solution) be? I > > thought of "meta-packages" with pre-depends to the real packages and > > dpkg-divertions for the config files? > > I don't think you can dpkg-divert conffiles, which makes it a bit tricky to > do that anyway. > Well thanks, did not know that! Then my "solution" does not seen to make sense. > The correct solution to your problem, I think, is a system management > application such as CFEngine or (my preferred option) Puppet. These systems > allow you to specify rules which describe how your system is supposed to > look, and then the program does what's needed to make that happen. You can > make classes, too, which are generic configuration fragments which you can > apply to a group of hosts -- a very powerful feature which allows you to > make the common config parts really common. > Sound ver good. I already headre about CFEngine, don't know puppet yet. Will have a look at both og them. > CFEngine is in Debian, but has some real nasty frustrations. Puppet isn't > in Debian, but Jamie is working hard on the packages and I've got some > provisional ones built from his sources if you want to try it out. Puppet > is fairly new on the scene, but is maturing fast, and has much less > irritations. > > - Matt > Well, of course I would like to try, that's why I asked ;-) So how can I get my (virtual) fingers on that (puppy) packages? Are they for sarge, otherwiese I will (have to) build some myself. What is the URL for puppy? Thanks. W. la Tendresse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
