Re: Configuration management, version 5
- To: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org>, Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Configuration management, version 5
- From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:09:51 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19980802180951.D389@kitenet.net>
- Mail-followup-to: Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@wiggy.ml.org>, Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-policy@lists.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19980803020917.A8407@wiggy.ml.org>; from Wichert Akkerman on Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:09:17AM +0200
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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > I would think something needs to export the new value into
> > /etc/news/servers. Since it is not possible to reconfigure running news
> > servers anyway.
>
> I don't really care what changes waht file at, I'm more interested in the
> design that makes this possible. Triggers seems like the best to implement
> this at the moment, but I'm open to suggestions. esp. since we won't be
> doing this for a while at least.
Can't we just use postinst scripts for this? Just keep track of what package
owns which variables, and when a variable in apackage changes, re-run the
postint (which will presumably act on the change).
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see shy jo
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