Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-21 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi everybody, thank you very much for all your replies. Will surely look into all mentioned options. Bye... Dirk ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

[OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Hi, I'm currently thinking about a good way to deploy software packages in (eventually replicated) AFS volumes. One possible way I can think of is to use (x)stow, but that would imply a lot of manual work (download, unpack, compile, install to rw volume, xstow, vos release). Does anyone know of

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Booker Bense
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Hi, I'm currently thinking about a good way to deploy software packages in (eventually replicated) AFS volumes. One possible way I can think of is to use (x)stow, but that would imply a lot of manual work (download, unpack, compile, install to rw

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am 20.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Booker Bense: My 2 cents... Outside of a few very specialized apps, putting software in AFS is a losing proposition these days. Since local disk space is growing so fast, there really is little justification for not simply using the package management system of

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Todd Lewis
On 12/20/2010 12:46 PM, Dirk Heinrichs sent: Hi, I'm currently thinking about a good way to deploy software packages in (eventually replicated) AFS volumes. Probably not what you're looking for, but we have developed a tool in Perl to help with the AFS-specific bits of building and

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Andy Cobaugh
On 2010-12-20 at 19:34, Dirk Heinrichs ( dirk.heinri...@altum.de ) said: Am 20.12.2010 19:26, schrieb Booker Bense: My 2 cents... Outside of a few very specialized apps, putting software in AFS is a losing proposition these days. Since local disk space is growing so fast, there really is

Re: [OpenAFS] Package Management in AFS

2010-12-20 Thread Patricia O'Reilly
We manage 18,000 Unix/Linux machines via configuration files and packages stored in AFS. So far nothing else comes close to scaling as well as AFS. The configuration management system was developed in house. We edit in one place and the information is pulled (from AFS) by the client based on