Re: ITC: dpkg-sysconfig
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 11:54:52PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:22:27AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
>
> > I'm about to create the package deb-sysconfig which is the base for
> > creating 'add-on' packages to create users, add add-on configs using
> > self-made debian packages. I wrote a letter about it some days ago.
> >
> > There will be some sub-packages of this, deb-sysconfig-ssh,
> > deb-sysconfig-mysql and maybe more.
>
Hi
> If you're not already using it, cfengine would be a great tool to build this
I have now read the documentation of cfengine. That sounds interesting but
there are a couple of issues that needs to be solved.
> around. Each package would only need to install a chunk of cfengine
> configuration, which would be included in the main system configuration. In
> fact, each "configuration package" could be reduced to one cfengine config
> file, plus whatever auxiliary files are required (config templates, etc.).
There are a couple of problems. One is group memberships. In cfengine
(if I'm right) you can only do something like:
foo = ( bar1 bar2 bar3 )
This assigns barX to the group foo. But I need to have multiple packages
assign different users to the same group. I can not see that it is
possible, or.
But cfengine seems to be a nice thing. Quite hard to revert the changes
that cfengine have created but that is maybe not a big issue. It does
not solve all problems but some of them. I can not see that you can add
users using cfengine, but I can be wrong here too.
I'll probably make a whateverthepackagenameis-cfengine package. :)
Regards,
// Ola
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