Hi I am in the process of rebuilding one of my servers and I thought hey why not build a package, that links all the other packages I need, and the corresponding configuration files. I am guessing this has been thought of before but haven't seen anything for it, so I thought I would come to the list (tried debian-user first but realised that might have been the wrong place to ask the question) I am having a look at debhelper, debian policy and maint-guide. for example for server test.acme.com I was going to create a package test.acme.com and making it dependant on the required packages (I can specific a base minimum). Any one else done this, what hurdles might I face ? How am i going to handle 2 packages owning a file, for example for bind and my custom package and the file /etc/bind/named.conf ??? I have come across the replaces option for file handling I think, although now I am thinking that i should really just replace the files in the postinst scripts, after backing up the files into /var/backup My other thought aswell is that i need to use pre-depends on all the packages that I want, so that they are in place and configured before my packages tried to do any thing ? Comments/ thoughts ? Alex
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