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RE: Package management
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didier |
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RE: Package management |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:37:21 -0400 |
One good tool to look at (that we call every evening using
from cfengine) is:
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/index.html
Didier.
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> On Behalf Of Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:58 PM
> To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
> Subject: Package management
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>
> I would like to ask about the RPM package management stuff.
> I am not a big user of RPM, but I would like to try this
> out now and see whether it can be done for debian packages
> too. (getapt is a wonderful thing)
>
> I wonder:
>
> How does rpm know where to look for packages?
> What if they are at a remote source?
> Could the packages be downloaded in from cfservd?
> If so, where should they go?
> How are dependencies handed?
>
> If this has been explained to me previously than I apologize.
> I am wading through old mail, and working on "methods"
> for 2.1.0... any help appreciated.
>
> e.g.
>
> Suppose I want to make sure that all hosts have tcpdump
> installed and that requires the pcap library as a
> dependency. How do I express that, given that the packages
> are all on a DVD...or copied into some source dir.
>
> Mark
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