Re: passing installation parameters to rpm?

[German Cancio <German Cancio Melia cern ch>]

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

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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@crismerritt.com
> 
> 
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