RE: Package management

[didier]

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
> 
> 
> 
> 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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