Re: Maintaining multiple Debian boxes
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Hi,
I have a few idea that might work for you. I have not tested it, so I
can't guarentee a thing.
Exekuting "dpkg --get-selections" will give you all the package
selectinons on a machine. Piping that into "dpkg --set-selections" on an
other machine will set the selections there. You could the invoke the
dpkg-ftp scripts for example to preform the actual retrival of the new
packages, and then the adding, uppdatin and romaval could be done with a
few dpkg calls. If all this where to be done regually, as cron jobs, the
procedure would only need attention for packages asking questions in there
setup scripts.
A maby easier way would be to have a central disk nfs mountet by all your
clients, and then have a cron job on the clients installing all packages
found in that directory. But that would not give you any way to purge
packages.
As for packages asking questions it should not be to hard to construct som
kind of databse containing what to awnser to which question, and the run
the instalation process through a perl script that look up the questions
in the db and awnsers the quiestions.
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