[Infrastructures] Found some software.

[Ryan Nowakowski]

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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:48:28PM -0600, pac@fortuitous.com wrote:
> Ryan,
>=20
>   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?

The most "infrastructures.org" thing to do is to have a dev server
that you use apt to install packages on.  Then upload those packages
to the gold server and use ISConf's makefiles and dpkg to keep strict
installation order.

>   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.=20

You can put several different packages repositories (i.e. a Redhat rpm
repository and an apt Connectiva repository) on the same gold server
and have different makefiles for different distros.

> 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?

We just put config files into CVS, no binaries.  However, some people
put binaries in CVS also.  CVS is not very efficient when dealing with
binaries.  That's why we elected to just put binaries in an rsync
repository and distribute them from there.

- Ryan


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