Re: Bootstrapping

[Tim Nelson]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, John Sechrest wrote:

>  % This is what I'd want the community-contributed cfengine configs to come
>  % from - actual use, practices proven on real networks. It would need to
>  % be it's own project, with active contributers. I plan on starting it on
>  % my own, then seeing if people want to join in once I have something
>  % working to get at least a small network up from scratch. It would
>  % probably need to be a custom debian distro on a CD, to bootstrap the
>  % whole process from a gold server.

        Just so we're all on the same wavelength, it seems to me that Nate
is talking about a cfengine-based distribution.  Since we're not likely to
get a large number of people working on it, we're best off basing it on
another like Debian or Fedora.  I guess I'd just like to see cfperl used
as well, because I often find myself needing the "users" section :).

>  This brings up many questions for me...
>
>  A) Why would this not work as a component of the CFengine work that
>     is already going on?
>
>  B) Why would it need to be a seperate project?
>
>  C) Do you care that there already is an ongoing project working
>     on the same issue? (We got our sourceforge project approved recently)

        Where's that?

        :)

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