You may consider having a look at tools like quattor (http://quattor.org) or LCFG (http://www.lcfg.org). They provide a framework for centrally deploying configurations with plug-in components for service specific setups, being the RPM list itself an instance of configuration. cheers, German ------------------------------------------------------ Germán Cancio Meliá IT/FIO CERN CH-1211 Genève 23 tel. +41 2276 70921 mail: German.Cancio@xxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Cris Merritt wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
