Re: Admin tools - idea from left field
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote:
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> I have not quite figured out how to take the configuration information
> before installation, although I have a partial solution. If you first
> unpack all of the packages, the config snippets might then already be
> written to the file system, (assuming that they are packaged with the rest
> of the installables) allowing you to run debconfig and then the
> postinstalls, but that really isn't a pre-configuation either.
Why not have a preinst script pass the information to a tool that puts
the config info in its place, pursuant to any system level configuration
options (mode) - perhaps even one that sends the info on to remote
machines, what happens when it gets there would depend on the mode of
the remote machine. Conceivably the config info could be held,
installed immediately, or even processed further (but that's another
thread) ...then dpkg can go ahead with the installation.
> However, once you have an installation, you can "plop" /usr/lib/debconfig
> down in any other machine on the LAN that has a base system installed, and
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Naturally the above scheme would have a way of communicating things
like upgrade, new install, override, ... to the target machine(s).
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> > What do people think of the core idea, though?
:)
- Bruce
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