Dear RPMers, a question:
How can I pass installation parameters to an RPM package installation?
To be more specific, I would like to manage large numbers of Linux installations with RPM. Not only must I manage which packages are installed on each machine, I must also manage how each installed package is configured. I want to manage all this information in a database and automate the installation/configuration.
For example, say I have an application Foo packaged in foo.rpm, and say Foo has a config file /etc/foo.conf, where the parameter FOOHOST gets specified.
Now, I want to store the correct value of FOOHOST for each system in a database and use this to automate the configuration. I can have the package automatically build (or modify) /etc/foo.conf, but how do I get the value of FOOHOST into the installation process? I'd like my management system to pass this value to the rpm --install command through some channel. This channel could be a file specified on the command line, or environment variables, or definitions on the command line, or...
What is the canonical way to do this?
Thanks.
Regards,
Cris
cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
_______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
