-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi, I have a few idea that might work for you. I have not tested it, so I can't guarentee a thing.
Exekuting "dpkg --get-selections" will give you all the package selectinons on a machine. Piping that into "dpkg --set-selections" on an other machine will set the selections there. You could the invoke the dpkg-ftp scripts for example to preform the actual retrival of the new packages, and then the adding, uppdatin and romaval could be done with a few dpkg calls. If all this where to be done regually, as cron jobs, the procedure would only need attention for packages asking questions in there setup scripts. A maby easier way would be to have a central disk nfs mountet by all your clients, and then have a cron job on the clients installing all packages found in that directory. But that would not give you any way to purge packages. As for packages asking questions it should not be to hard to construct som kind of databse containing what to awnser to which question, and the run the instalation process through a perl script that look up the questions in the db and awnsers the quiestions. - ---------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hakan Ardo E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ub2.lu.se/~hakan/sig.html Public Key: Try "finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Interests: WWW, Programming, 3D graphics Thought for the day: As long as one understands, the spelling does not matter :-) - ---------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMtLsO96dx9igIm71AQExzwQA3L49y+sfIdLI+37ouHoDP4FxiuBa5Qmb 5LZAzZ5CvAQgprXy//ZCMv6YMuGf0g3Hk8kWPkYJ7GrfxiMczHMJPKdS423tIsWk sYmZ/uEgu9c5LZ2QLK8ImX8iJMTDjgSr1rC5XcbS7ERPD00JHOmLBvKfTLSXw/KS KUJFw1xDkJI= =CFzV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
