On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 03:22:12AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> . Configuration Management
>
> We have ben acknowledged that we need to reduce pre/postinst
> interactions and some proposals have been made that are known as
> "Configuration Management". pre/postinst questions will interact
> with a database that is able to contain preconfiguration so cluster
> installations are easier.
>
> We have to face the truth, doing a cluster installation, debian is
> one of the most difficult distributions. Maintaining a cluster,
> though, it would benefit of Debian.
See http://kitenet.net/programs/sshcvs/?debconf for the CVS repository,
see http://www.debian.org/~joeyh/debconf/ for some pre-alpha .debs,
and mail... hmmm. I'm not sure. Possibly config-subscribe@kitenet.net
to subscribe to the discussion list.
This is the `debconf' project, which is based on Wichert's configuration
management script from ages ago. It has a variety of frontends:
traditional lind based, dialog based, gtk based and web based. It's even
basically functional (you can use it to configure packages).
Cheers,
aj
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