On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 04:00 -0800, Phoenix wrote: > I am wondering how cfengine could be used to make custom software > packages? Does anyone have experience with it?
I suppose you could automate making of custome packages. But I think you mean distribute. > As it is now, we have mainly solaris servers but still a rather mixed > environment (Linux/AIX...etc) with a "homemade", rather old way of > distributing software packages. It works via "push" so to speak, so I > am looking for alternative ideas and when I saw cfengine I thought that > it might be used to do just this (and have the clients "pull" what they > need from a central package server). > But I have no clue how to "think" (cfengine-wise)...i.e. How many > cf-files should I have?, what types?,what classes? HOW should I make > just ONE server have a special package, etc. You can use Cfengine to distribute packages. I know quite a few people do it. We have a product that puts a frontend around using Cfengine. One of the things we do is to distribute packages. There is packaging installation for rpm and solaris (and maybe others at this point) built into Cfengine. Though you wouldn't necessarily have to use that to install packages. You could just use shellcommands. Here is a link to a paper read back in 2000. These guys describe what they did. http://astro.uchicago.edu/~davidr/cfengine-tools/lisa-paper_html/ A little dated at this point, but it might help you gain a better understanding. Sounds like you need to take some time to learnCcfengine and understand what it can do for you. It is different from traditional shell scripting. Take a look at cfegnine.org and cfwiki.org, read over all the documentation. Download cfengine and start taking examples and work with it. You need to know whether or not this is a viable solution before you just try to do package management with Cfengine. > So...any help appriciated :) > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Christian Pearce http://www.sysnav.com http://www.commnav.com http://www.perfectorder.com
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