Re: ntp 4.2.0 in experimental
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 06:58:03PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Feb 16, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@raw.no> wrote:
> >* Marco d'Itri
> >| On Feb 15, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> >| >Which group would you classify our site in?
> >| One which needs a site-wide method of pushing config files to hosts.
> >Or one which just needs a way to push configuration defaults to
> >hosts. Or.. we already had that using debconf!
>
> But debconf is not supposed to be a generic way to push configuration to
> hosts.
That's odd. I got a different impression from Joey[1]. After
all, he thinks that Debconf should "store answers in a central database
for large installations" and provide a "way to do noninteractive
installs".
After all, why else does Debconf allow you to pre-seed its
database? And why else are we encouraging an LDAP backend?
Simon
[1] http://www.kitenet.net/~joey/debconf-debconf/motivations.html
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