Yes if libconf is the project I read about some time ago that aims to bring a xml config file standard to us all. It sure would make life easier when you need to write scripts to update confs
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Lauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [gentoo-server] Ideas for a server profile? On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 13:47 +0200, Jean Blignaut wrote: > I don't see why you'd want to have a dhcp client on a server but any > way... "Just in case" ... I've been almost locked out of machines because they lacked a dhcp client. I'm not after a strictly-server-only profile, and having dhcp available by default "makes sense"(tm) > How about the profile contains minimal packages like say no > productivity/office packages, no X like you said no games (besides maybe > game servers) basicly clear out every thing that doesn't make sence on a > server. Basically an independent overlay / portage tree with only minimal package sets available? That is difficult because then not all packages are available --> more overlay fudgery > A great Idea would be some thing like virtual packages with flexible use > flags that represent use full combinations of packages on production > servers. What I'm getting at is this: There are some greate Howto this > with that and that articles in the gentoo sysadmin docs as well as > www.gentoo-wiki.com why not create say -- a virtual_postfix package with > appropriate use flags to combine say your choice of imap/pop server, db > backend, authentication system, antivirus and spamfilters -- all in one > package! Ah, meta-packages ... lots of work, but that'd be really cool. > It might even be better if such a packages default use flags are so use > full that most would use it - a sort of standard. How do you decide that? You can only do a survey and ask for useflags, then hope people don't have to change too much ... > a nother issue I find very taxing is scanning thru config files > during/after updates to try catch the configs that would break my setup. > Can't we have some means to check whether or not the admin has ever > edited a config file by hand and if so be more don't auto update but if > so do. In theory yes, but I'm not sure if that is reliable. Config managment is tricky on gentoo and should be extended. > I guess I'm getting at a more complex config management system. > It might also have helped if config files where more standard - say if > they all used some vaguely similar xml format Like, say, libconf? Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move -- [email protected] mailing list
