Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Actually you just need to provide a set of packages for each host. That nicely fits into data that is handled by gmake (space-separated lists) and thus debian/rules can handle it well. You do need to automate the generation of debian/control,

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 06:41:25AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 16/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >aptitude seems to have all the relevant infrastructure in place. I have > >no idea, though, how it tracks "installed" vs. "auto-installed" > >packages. So with it you could a

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: aptitude seems to have all the relevant infrastructure in place. I have no idea, though, how it tracks "installed" vs. "auto-installed" packages. So with it you could actually use a per-host task package. Yes, I'm aware of this and use it

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:09:26PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 15/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Your keyword here is preseed . > > > >> > >> The software I'm thinking about will take all this configuration > >information > >> and build a host-specific package (or maybe

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/01/07, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your keyword here is preseed . > > The software I'm thinking about will take all this configuration information > and build a host-specific package (or maybe a "task" in debian world?) which > the host will just apt-get (either after a PXE b

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 09:17:00AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 11/01/07, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >You also get all the other benefits without extra work: > >- Repeatability + traceability of the install/update. > >- rpmverify (who moved my cheese?) > >- Package signing (not

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Thursday, 11 בJanuary 2007 00:17, Amos Shapira wrote: > ... with a small twist that I'm more interested in Debian-based packages, I'll point to Fedora tools, but I'm sure Debian has the equivalent to most of them since it has the support infrastructure (apt) long before Fedora existed (and had

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/01/07, Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You also get all the other benefits without extra work: - Repeatability + traceability of the install/update. - rpmverify (who moved my cheese?) - Package signing (not only for security, also to mitigate the usual errors -- mixing test/produc

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 10 בJanuary 2007 11:37, Ishay wrote: > I need a distribution mechanism for software which is running on redhat. The best way is to use the OS practices. In this case: - Package each component in its own RPM (or several RPMs). - Use yum (or apt4rpm) to create repositories. -

Meaning of "emergency upgrade" (was: Re: Distribution mechanism)

2007-01-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > > I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade > > of my PC's motherboard. > > Microsoft made a marketing decision to require a re-instalation of the > ope

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote: > As it happens, Linux is very good at adapting itself for different > hardware. It is not MS-Windows XP. > > I had the experience of having been forced to perform an emergency upgrade > of my PC's motherboard. At the time I had both MS-W

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Oded Arbel
--=-d2PGQHs32I5gu4sRw2zo Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 11:37 +0200, Ishay wrote: > Hi all, > I need a distribution mechanism for software which is running on redhat. > The distribution audience will only include people in my compa

Re: Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Omer Zak
d fine). 2. Some individualized configuration files (such as IP address, host name). Linux will take care of all the rest. --- Omer On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Ishay wrote: > Hi all, > I need a distribution mechanism forsoftware which is running on redhat. &g

Distribution mechanism

2007-01-10 Thread Ishay
Hi all, I need a distribution mechanism for software which is running on redhat. The distribution audience will only include people in my company. The installation of this software is very complicated (Apache configuration, Perl module installation and other compilations). Therefore, it is very