On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:33:02PM -0700, der.hans wrote: :> Once you've figured out what exactly you want to do, you can try to :> find something in the usual places (like sourceforge), or write a bunch :> of cron + ssh + perl + CVS scripts to do what you want. : :I'm gonna as on the SAGE mailing list, then start that way if they don't :have any suggestions. I find it hard to believe cfengine is the only package :that does this type of thing. That is what FAI is using, so maybe I should :give in and use cfengine.
There's a package (possibly only in unstable) called replicator, that's basicly a perl wrapper around rsync for installing and syncronizing systems. Haven't used it yet, and probably won't completly replace cfengine, but it sounds interesting and could probably be trivially back ported to stable (since it seems to be all or mostly perl) :> Having an all-debian network helps, at least you can use apt's get- and :> set-selections to keep packages in sync. <SMILEY type="envious"/> If you're going to be keeping these as absolutely identical installs, you could cronify a set-selections from a canonical source and dselect-update, but upgrading an installing deb's is a fairly interactive task, stutting it up completely isn't so easily done. I have high hopes for "replicator" as it seems to be "the right thing". see http://www.infrastructures.org for a more generic view of what that right thing might be -Jon
