On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Zouhir Hafidi wrote: > Hi everybody, > > for those who want to autoinstall with kickstart, update > with yum, and maintain with cfengine you can take a look > at this howto (first draft): > > http://www-gat.univ-lille1.fr/~hafidi/deploy_and_maintain_howto/ > > it is a "step by step" document to: > - create an installation tree > - merge updates with a simple python script > - install with kickstart > - update with yum > - maintain with cfengine > > any feedback is welcome, Very nice, and something that will prove very useful, no doubt, as this is very nearly a FAQ. This beautifully illustrates how bleeding-edge scalable the NOW/COW cluster model (arbitrarily using this to refer to non-Scyld- or Clustermatic-like clusters that are installed and maintained more or less as modified workstations on a LAN rather than with a custom kernel and global PID space) can be. Great job! One suggestion -- don't link specific yum (or any other) snapshots to your howto. Things change too fast, and the links will be "dead" in no time, increasing the work you have to do to keep the HOWTO current. Seth works on yum like a wild man (given that he DOES have a full time JOB:-) and although yum stable may hang around for "a while", that may well be a relatively short while as he continues to add "must have features" to the development release. There are also still bugfixes appearing in the stable release. I'd recommend linking to the yum website itself: http://www.linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ because it has useful information on yum for 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 on it, some addition sample configuration stuff on it, as well as links to current-stable for all three RH versions (which alas each need their own RPM because of the "signficant" library changes accompanying the rapid fire releases). There is also a bit of help on exactly the same problem (sans CFengine), although not nearly as well organized, on: http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/Resources/linux-mag.php ...mostly sample configuration files for e.g. dhcp, pxe, kickstart. Your HOWTO is much more detailed and descriptive. Are you going to contribute this to www.tldp.org? I'd like to link it to both this "short term" Resources page and to my main resources page on http://www.phy.duke.edu/brahma/Resources/links.php (which is getting so full that I'm going to have to work on adding an additional layer of organization or introducting finer grained categories:-). rgb > > ZH > ---------------- > Zouhir HAFIDI > USTL, U.F.R. de Mathematiques, Bat. M2 > F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq CEDEX, FRANCE > tel (+33) 3.20.43.45.15 fax (+33) 3.20.43.43.02 > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx
