Hi fellows,
today I heard about OpenPGK[1] and read its feature list. Unfortunately
OpenPKG describes itself as "...the world of cross-platform RPM-based Unix
software packaging". It is RPM based but cross-platform. It came to my
mind that having a distributed APT would be a great help to administrators
managing big networks of Debian/GNU Linux machines (just as I do).
OpenPKG would solve this problem but as said is RPM based.
Features I would like to have in APT or a wrapper around it:
- Package installation, upgrade, deinstallation over the net[2]
- dpkg-database/apt-cache queries over the net[3]
- central debconf database to allow central administration like
cfengine does.[4]
Is this functionality that would be interesting for more people?
Is anything like that in planning or even development?
I would be willing to implement something like that.
Regards, Joerg
Notes:
[1] http://www.openpgk.org
[2] think of 'apt-get --host webserver.my.org install apache'
or security updates to be done on numerous machines
[3] imagine 'apt-cache show apache' with output:
Package: apache
Priority: optional
Section: web
Hosts: webserver.my.org (1.3.22-5), intranet.my.org (1.3.19-3)
[4] Think of an SSHd installed suid which you want to reconf to not
to be suid anymore. The ssh package provides a debconf interface
for that. Having over 50 machines running the sshd you simply
could 'dpkg-reconfigure --all-hosts ssh' and change the config
for every machine running ssh.
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Joerg "joergland" Wendland
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