Re: ITC: dpkg-sysconfig
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 12:14:24PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> writes:
>
> You pressed the wrong kay and you answer ended up in my mail box
> instead of the list. I'm quoting you full mail.
>
> > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:40:51AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> > > Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > - Apply patches to the system (not tested enough)
> > >
> > > What is this supposed to do? What kind of patches and what system?
> >
> > Sometimes when you have a complex configuration you want several
> > packages to change different parts of a configuration file (for
> > example), or if you want to make special changes to a webbased
> > tool patches are a good way to make this work.
> >
> > You take the orginal file (or the one that are in the skel that will
> > be copied into the system each time), change it and generate a diff.
> > You do that for each tiny config change and now you can have a
> > quite flexible configuration.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > You have three hosts that you want to configure automaticly.
> > 1 Webserver
> > 2 Emailserver (with webmail locally)
> > 3 Standby server (with both, if 1 or 2 breaks).
> >
> > You can then have a standard apache config that fits all of them
> > with some small changes.
> > Make the changes for the webserver, and then for the emailserver and
> > you can (if you have done it correctly) apply both patches to the standby
> > server and it works. But this is not tested enough (yet).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > // Ola
>
> Well, that could be usefull. You have to back off nice, if people
> all-ready has changed from the standard configuration. Somehow you're
> working around debian-policy when you're changing conf-files.
Yes I know.
Note that NONE of the self-made config packages should ever be uploaded
to debian. That is my intention anyway. :) I only make it possible to
let the administrator have that possibility.
Regards,
// Ola
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