Re: cfengine Mac packages, universal binaries, and mass deployment

[Jason Edgecombe]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the feedback. I figured touching each one was required. I'm 
creating a custom installer to handle things.

Did your config require cfengine to be run 3 times to complete the setup?

Chris Kacoroski wrote:

> Jason,
>
> I have pushed cfengine out to 1500 macs.  The only way was to touch 
> each one by hand as the Mac has no package management (this was talked 
> about in the Apple Guru talk at LISA'05 -- Apple is working on a 
> package management system for the future).  Since we had timbuktu on 
> most machines, we hired a person who just installed a cfengine 
> installer that we created.  The installer was a self extracting 
> archive that:
>
> - setup the cfengine keys with the server
> - installed the basic cfengine  binaries
> - ran cfengine 3 times to complete the machine configuration.