[Yum] Feature request ... or How to.

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 3 May 2010, yum at schlomo.schapiro.org wrote:

>
> Yes, indeed. If you plan to manage a large enough farm of system (e.g. webserver
> farm) then you could also think about putting the configurations into RPMs,
> though it takes a certain amount of work to circumvent the various file conflicts.
>
> I built a PoC environment with that and can tell you that it is possible and
> also has several advantages over classical configuration management solutions
> (cfengine, bcfg2, puppet), but comes at a certain price of extra work and thinking.
>

I've done the PoC before - but it is FULL of tricky and lots of extra work 
to keep the config rpms current.

I don't think it's impossible - but I think in a lot of environments it is 
less practical.

-sv