Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-14 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Will Lowe wrote: Is there any deb available for it? Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb containing 139 lines of perl. Why not fileing a wishlist bug against an apropriate

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Joerg Wendland] If you run stable, use aptwatcher (http://people.debian.org/~lowe/aptwatcher) and each box will mail you when you need to do something to it. Nice tool, seems to be going into some crontabs :-) Is there any deb available for it?

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread Will Lowe
Is there any deb available for it? Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb containing 139 lines of perl. -- thanks,

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 11:37:41AM -0800, Will Lowe wrote: Is there any deb available for it? Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb containing 139 lines of perl. Maybe it should be just added to

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.01.13.2037 +0100]: Is there any deb available for it? Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb containing 139 lines of perl. this runs from my cron btw,

OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Joerg Wendland
Hi fellows, today I heard about OpenPGK[1] and read its feature list. Unfortunately OpenPKG describes itself as ...the world of cross-platform RPM-based Unix software packaging. It is RPM based but cross-platform. It came to my mind that having a distributed APT would be a great help to

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Will Lowe
- Package installation, upgrade, deinstallation over the net[2] [2] think of 'apt-get --host webserver.my.org install apache' or security updates to be done on numerous machines Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda imposing. Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh to

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-11 Thread Joerg Wendland
Will Lowe, on 2002-01-11, 16:12, you wrote: Err, the security implications of such a scheme are kinda imposing. Of course you are right. Simpler to use an existing tool like ssh to do the authentication. I have a network of ~80 Debian boxen, and I do something rougly like this: for