Re: DPKGPackageCheck() implementation.

[Mark . Burgess]

Dear Werner. 

thank you for your post I shall very much look forward to seeing
the results of this. I am sure there are MANY interested people
who would like to see this (including me)!!!! Tell me when you
think your patch is ready for prime-time and I would love to
include it.

best wishes
Mark

On  9 Mar, Morten Werner Olsen wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm working on a project for sentralizing configuration management of
> servers localized on different (physical) networks, and I'm sure this
> isn't my last post to this mailinglist. We are using Debian GNU/Linux
> as the platform, and try to use the superb APT- and Debconf-utilities
> as much as possible for software installation and preconfiguration. :)
> 
> Cfengine was choosen as the configuration management tool, and one of
> the first things I missed when using APT from Cfengine, was package
> support for DPKG (this is already implemented for RPM). I have made a
> draft implementation [1] of the function DPKGPackageCheck() in
> src/package.c based on the already existing RPMPackageCheck().
> 
> I've also built a Debian package [2] for Woody with this patch (based
> on the very good Cfengine2 package in Debian unstable).
> 
> The implementation is using APT in addition to DPKG, but as they both
> provide functionality to handle DEB-packages, I found that ok.
> 
> An example on how I use the DPKG package support with the bind9
> package, is available here [3].
> 
> What I want is that interested people could help me test and improve
> this implementation, so that Mark maybe includes it in future releases
> of Cfengine.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
> - Werner
> 
> [1] http://werner.nvg.org/src/cfengine_dpkg.diff
> [2] http://werner.nvg.org/src/cfengine2_2.0.9+2.1.0b5-1.uninett.2_i386.deb
> [2] http://werner.nvg.org/src/cf.bind9
> 
> 
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