Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:15:13PM -0500, Michael J. Kidd enlightened us: >> I'm actually in the process of porting all the unattended scripts over >> to wpkg. >> >> The way I see it... Unattended is great for installing the base OS. >> After that, wpkg seems to have a better handle on workstation >> software/patch maintenance.. ( with it's various checks, conditional >> operations, and uninstall/upgrade capabilities ). With wpkg always >> running at system start, it will allow a better configuration management >> after the system is running. >> >> My proposal is this.. >> >> Unattended loads the OS and installs ActivePerl and wpkg. >> Wpkg takes over and installs the hotfixes, patches, applications, etc... >> >> If we need to update a set of systems, update the profile in wpkg and >> the next reboot of the machine, it updates itself. This update could be >> scheduled, or manually initiated. >> >> I'm looking to expand the default package.xml layout by adding a comment >> with the download URL ( format taken from the unattended scripts files >> ), and using a modified version of 'prepare' to parse all the urls in >> the wpkg package.xml file. >> >> I do believe these two projects will make a GREAT open source deployment >> and configuration management suite. >> > > This sounds like a good way to go to me. I'd be interested in seeing it > work, please share as soon as you can! > > Matt >
For others who may be using both unattended and wpkg, I just finished up a web interface to help manage packages on WPKG, and manage MySQL values for Unattended data. http://wpkg.linuxkidd.com for anyone interested.. Thanks, Michael J. Kidd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
