Prepackaged configurations
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun May 23 03:05:48 UTC 2004
> 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.
Something we started working on at duke but kinda got sidetracked as
other work tookover was an xml format for describing some of things w/i
a machine configuration and running certain processes.
The goal was then you could easily design an interface to take those xml
descriptions and manufacture a configuration.
xml is nice for making a configuration files that programs can
consistently edit and re-read.
There is also a short format for something I'd like to include in the
next version of yum - it's just a way to build queues of processes to
run as a single transaction.
ex:
install foo
remove bar
update baz
groupinstall foogroup
so it can compile all of those into one transaction and run them.
David Christian worked on the format and commands and I want to make it
(and a bunch of other things) in there.
so a thought to a format that easily configured and managed by a program
and also human editable is a good idea.
no need to create a new file format like cfengine did.
-sv
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