[Yum] Feature request ... or How to.
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 3 18:06:56 UTC 2010
On Mon, 3 May 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I've always thought this was a serious omission in all of the package
> managers and that it would be really useful to be able to take any arbitrary
> machine that might have been carefully tuned for a specific purpose and
> 'publish' its package list. Then anyone else who wanted a similar setup
> could tell his package manager to duplicate it without having to repeat the
> work of researching and choosing the package list. It would be even better
> if you could 'subscribe' to a published list and track the exact versions
> installed on the master copy so you wouldn't do updates until you knew
> someone had tested the new version combinations already.
The problem is not the pkg list - we have that - debug-dump gives you a
good approximation - the problem is you need to couple that with
configs.
And by the time you've done that you're better off using kickstart +
configmgmt - like puppet or cfengine or bcfg2.
-sv
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