On Sun, 23 May 2004, Carwyn Edwards wrote: >Havoc Pennington wrote: > >In LCFG (http://www.lcfg.org/) you can do: > >> Some of the things that _might_ change across canned configurations: >> >> - the package set (the only thing we can change now, via >> the Workstation or Server split in the comps file for example) >> - specific parts of a config file, e.g. enabling xdmcp in gdm >> - optimum partitioning scheme >> - kernel boot options > We do many of the same things with CFengine. The one thing I have found is that the syntax of CFengine really needs a good washing. It is somewhat inconsistant as the authors have added features and not fixed the parser any. Before I got blindsided by work, I was going to try manipulating CFegine a bit to try and work out those warts. Getting it more integrated into a packaging system and version control system were also on the list. I also see as you do with LCFG that it couldnt be dropped into Fedora/RH/Debian, but would need to be adapted or re-written to meet all the needs. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- You should consider any operational computer to be a security problem --
