[Infrastructures] Found some software.

[pac@fortuitous.com]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:39:08AM -0600, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
> Package management tools such as dpkg integrate very well with
> the isconf framework.  You can use the native OS package tools (i.e.
> pkgadd for Solaris, rpm for Redhat, dpkg for Debian) to install packages
> from within the isconf makefiles.  The makefiles are responsible for
> maintaining the order or "history" of the installed packages.  On Debian
> you probably wouldn't want to use apt with isconf because apt doesn't
> maintain strict ordering when installing packages.
 
Ryan,

  Thanks for the reply. Do your remarks about Debian's Apt also apply
to the Apt-RPM that Conectiva uses? I've had good luck admining
boxes like Redhat and Conectiva with Apt, since they usually resolve
ugly dependency issues. Maybe apt can be used on the gold servers,
and then propagated to the clients via whatever package tool they use?

  Also, can the gold server be host for several distro types as well via
chroot, or say uml?
 I'm thinking that you can support several distros by installing packages
in a chroot or User Mode Linux shell and once they are correctly install,
propagate the results out. 

Another issue that came up was CVSup or CVS repository size. How large
do these get? Do they store change in the actual configuration info, or
actual binary/file changes?

Thanks again,

-Phil Carinhas
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