Re: Patch to add install action to packages:

[David Douthitt]

Tim Nelson wrote:
> To now make this relevant to cfengine :), imagine if we had a 
> (first-level) package API that had commands named after the basic 
> operations, ie. PackageInstall, PackageRemove, PackageUpgrade, 
> PackageVersionCompare, and the like, and they had a configuration
> file which defined a command to run for each of them, and possibly
> some control over getting information from them afterwards.  If we
> had a library like that, we could just add things to the config file,
> and they would work.

This is more or less what I had in mind, without the idea of a 
cross-platform library.  Just have a cfengine configuration environment 
that defines the various operations, and allow it to be defined on the 
fly during a cfengine run.


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