Angelo wrote:
Hi list,
a couple of days ago I downloaded a snapshot of the code from the
repository and succesfully ran commands through the command module on
Freebsd 6.2 and 7.0, wasn't that surprise after a glance at the code
but still was nice to see it working.
I was really impressed by the tool and appreciate the fact that is
kept quite platform independent, although I have a couple of
suggestions to make it running potentially on every host (well, didn't
tried w1n yet..)
Working on non RPM distros is not really hard since a `make install`
does not involve any rpm tools; still, the system installs a couple of
redhat-like init scripts in /etc/init.d/ that are useless and confusing.
I strongly suggest to keep the core of the system untied by any distro
or even os and then packaging (or letting others packaging) it adding
the needed startup scripts etc..
I didn't try other modules like hardware or service but I am pretty
sure they will fail. Probably is not possible to write a clean
hardware module that runs on any platform, in this case I wonder if
it's better to rename those modules to something like rh_service and
rh_hardware.
As they would return different data, most likely.
A better suggestion might be to make the smolt module just be called
"smolt", and the hal module just "hal", that way we don't have to
specify distro stuff when commands do work on multiple distributions
(ex: Debian)
I really like the way the yum module is separated by the rest of the
system and allows people to expand func writing interfaces for apt,
portage or any other package system.
Ok, no more complaints :-) func seems great to me and I am interested
to start using it in the management of a few bsd servers, I shouldn't
take too long to package it and write startup scripts, if somebody
wants them.
Would love to have them. If you'd like to take a shot at making other
things more portable as well, please go ahead.
Also you're welcome to join #func on irc.freenode.net if you haven't
already.
(Speaking of func, I really should start/finish the command multiplexer
soon to make it nice and extra speedy)
(hope not to start a flame :p )
Not a problem, those were good suggestions! Thanks!
--Michael
thanks,
Angelo
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