Alex Samad wrote:
Hi
I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not
build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the
corresponding configuration files.
I am guessing this has been thought of before but haven't seen anything for it,
so I thought I would come to the list (tried debian-user first but realised
that might have been the wrong place to ask the question)
I am having a look at debhelper, debian policy and maint-guide.
for example for server test.acme.com
I was going to create a package test.acme.com and making it dependant on the
required packages (I can specific a base minimum).
Any one else done this, what hurdles might I face ? How am i going to handle 2
packages owning a file, for example for bind and my custom package and the file
/etc/bind/named.conf ???
I have come across the replaces option for file handling I think, although now
I am thinking that i should really just replace the files in the postinst
scripts, after backing up the files into /var/backup
My other thought aswell is that i need to use pre-depends on all the packages
that I want, so that they are in place and configured before my packages tried
to do any thing ?
Comments/ thoughts ?
I did this for Ubuntu clients some time ago. The principle is identical
though, and I suggest you have a look at it, and maybe ask me questions
would you have some.
http://apt.bxlug.be/ubuntu/dupedi/
Alex
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