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Stefan Schlesinger wrote: |
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> Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: |
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>> Hi there, |
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>> I've been reading a bit about cfengine, and would like to give it |
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>> a try. I have some doubts and I would like to know if somebody has |
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>> solved them. My main concern right now is automatic installation of |
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>> packages... is this something you would do with cfengine in a Gentoo |
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>> system? It seems you have a packages action intended to do this, but |
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>> it seems it has only support for rpm based package managers, am I |
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>> missing anything here? Has anybody made this packages action work |
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>> with portage? Or do you use another way of installing packages with |
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>> cfengine? |
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>> Best regards |
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>> Jose |
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> Hey Jose, |
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> as I'm new to cfengine, I've never used that module, nore did I ever |
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> try to install software using cfengine->portage ... but! I just had a |
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> look at the cfportage module and it's README(1). You can use the |
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> module to check whether an ebuild is installed or not. According to |
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> this information you can start a shellcommands: action that startes |
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> emerge <ebuild>. |
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Ummm... curiously this module is under |
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/usr/portage/net-misc/cfengine/files, but it doesn't get installed with |
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the cfengine ebuild... I'll take a look at it, thanks for pointing it. |
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> Btw. we created a wiki(2) for cfengine. Maybe you can just start an |
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> article about this. |
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Yes, I was aware of the wiki. If I manage to do anything worth |
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publishing, I'll post an article there. |
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Thanks, best regards |
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Jose |
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