Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > 5. Give up on using Debian packages to do this and instead use a separate > configuration management system that doesn't do its work with packages > (something like Puppet or Cfengine). This is the option that most > people take and it scales a lot better, but it's definitely more work.
Well, it's less work than trying to fight against Debian's package management to do something it tries hard to avoid :-) In other words: Debian's packaging system has smarts in it to *avoid* making local configuration changes. If your configuration management needs are complex enough that you want to spend effort on automating it, Puppet or Cfengine are the tools to investigate. -- \ “The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the | `\ world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports | _o__) the strong probability that yours is a fake.” —Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
