confused about packages action

2011-08-10 Thread John G. Heim
I'm rather new to cfengine but one thing I can't figure out from the documentation is how to get cfengine to install a package if it is not installed or to update it if there is a new version. I have something like this in my config file packages: linux:: google-chrome-stable action=install

cfengine and FAI

2010-02-09 Thread John G. Heim
Hi, I am trying to configure our automatic linux install system (Fully Automated Install or FAI) to do a mimimal debian linux install and then to run cfengine to install all of the config files and additional packages. I already have cfengine to do stuff like copying a ntp.conf file to the lin