Re: New packages: feature

[Phil D'Amore]

That's not a bad idea.  This has been a small source of frustration for 
me, so I'm not sure why I didn't think of it.  That should be trivial to 
implement.  I will try to work up a patch for that in the next week or 
so and see how it works.

Do apt and yum support multiple packages on the command line?  Do you 
think it'd be better to gather a list of packages to be installed and 
run the command in one go, or run the command for each package?  The 
only true benefit I could see by grouping would be for dependancies, but 
apt and yum probably handle deps already so it may not be much of a 
benefit.  Doing one per package would likely be easier to code :).

Allen Bettilyon wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> So, I've been reading about the new packages: feature in cf, and have a
> few questions/suggestion.
>
>
> Would it be possible to define a general purpose install command?  It
> seems rather tedious to define every rpm as follows:
>
>
> packages:
>
>  some_package   elsedefine=needs_some_package
>  some_package2 elsedefine=needs_some_package2
>
>
> shellcommands:
>  needs_some_package::
>         "/sbin/apt-get install some_package"
>
>  needs_some_package2::
>         "/sbin/apt-get install some_package2"
>
>
>
>
> Perhaps a global install_package command where the name of the package
> gets passed to the command?  This would work nicely for the currently
> used package management systems such as apt or yum.  I envision
> something like:
>
>
>
> packages:
>
>
> class::
>
>   pkgmgr = ( rpm )
>   DefaultInstallCommand = ( /sbin/apt-get install )
>   DefaultAction = ( install )
>   
>   package1
>   package2
>   packageN
>
>   customPackage
> 	action=none   
> 	elsedefine=custom_install_method
>
>
>
>
> shellcommands:
>
>   custom_install_method:
>       "..."
>
>
>
>
>
> - Allen
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Help-cfengine mailing list
> Help-cfengine@gnu.org
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
>  

--
Phil D'Amore                             "Sometimes there is a fine line
Senior System Administrator               between criminally abusive
Red Hat, Inc                              behavior and fun."
Office: 919.754.3700 x44395                 -- Ted the Generic Guy
Pager: 877.383.8795                            (Dilbert 4/19/2003)