cobaco wrote:
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- - What is modulR? Well it does what cfengine does with some extras:
1. you can use it do change/maintain the configuration of a group of
machine (we already have that with cfengine)
2. the wanted machine configuration is defined at a meta level,
decoupling the wanted policy from the configuration format and even
the used software (so we could transparently change from, for
example one dhcp server to a completely different one. 3. I gathered they put a great amount of work in the (XML-ized) format for the meta-definitions. Among other things the meta-level has
inheritance and seems to offer the possibility to easily suport
customizations for specific situations at schools (like say changing
the used netwerk adresses) customizations.
-> coupled with 2 this seems to mean that you could do a customization once for a school, and then have it maintained transparently across upgrades and changes of used server software
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There's a new package in debian called pkgsinc which claims to perform a complimentary function that may be worth considering here:-
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200403/msg00346.html
P.S. I put their project manager/leader in the CC, please keep him in there as he's not on the list to the best of my knowledge
Regards,
David.
