> But there is something broken about abusing the > package installation > process to setup something as complex as a database > in my view.
You go ahead and tell that to all those banks which run world's trading & exchange systems, and all those insurance companies, and the military. Tell them their super-stable, highly available systems with thousands of such packages are "broken". I actually witnessed Sun coming in one such time and telling the customer all about how super-duper OpenSolaris is, and how IPS is the future, and a "no scripting zone", until people in the room said "wait, we have thousands of configuration packages, and have had them for the last 10 years! This IPS stuff will break all of that!" And the Sun guy's jaw dropping on the floor... that OpenSolaris pitch did not go down well. What is the difference between delivering a binary executable, and a preconfigured /etc/inet/ntp.conf? There isn't any. A package is supposed to deliver encapsulated unit of work, not simply binary executables. If we were to follow your logic, delivering any configuration files, or adapting them to the system on-the-fly is "broken", and that's absurd. Just because you can't imagine it, that doesn't mean it's broken, or that it doesn't exist. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
