Jerome Haltom schrieb: > Well, this has been discussed to death in various other places. > > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 16:36 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> Jerome Haltom schrieb: >>> Linux machines already have such technology. A few choices in fact. I >>> use Apt. >>> >>> I configure my own Apt repositories, I upload packages I need to them. I >>> make sure each host is configured to point at the proper apt repository, >>> and use the distro's built in upgrade mechanisms. >> That's for installing whole programs rather than running custom scripts. > > Tons of Deb packages distributed with the distribute itself run not much > more than a script. I don't consider a .deb package necessarily as a > piece of software, but more as a piece of functionality available to be > added to a system. Some .deb files don't do anything more than form an > abstract named entity (meta package). > >> >>> If I need advanced scripting, I just build my own .deb files. It's super >>> easy and can be done with nothing more than a collection of text files. >>> And versioning is handled automatically, dependencies, etc. >> Building a .deb file to just run: >> >> echo "foo bar" >> /etc/sudoers >> >> >> Doesn't seem super easy and fast to me. > > Why not? It's great. You can manage the addition of this line as a > "feature" to be installed on the OS as part of your standard > installation procedure. Removing it then is just as easy as removing > the .deb package.
Maybe you're right - after all, deb or rpm is just an underlying technology. I can perfectly imagine a simple script, something ncurses based, or a web-GUI to build a rpm/deb (or both) custom-advanced-script-only-package (just ask a couple of questions, ask to point to a script or paste it, done). Previously, I was looking for something which could ease the administration of Linux stations, and I didn't find much. cfengine comes to my mind, but it is unnecessarily complex. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wpkg-users
