State of Red Hat support?

[Henning Sprang]

Hi Axel,


On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 22:52 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> [...]
>
> another interesting thing to discuss is hwo to integrate two or more
> distributions in one tree. I have seen Sarge and Woody co-exist in one
> config tree, but maybe these are too much alike in contrast to Debian
> vs Mandriva etc.

Trying to share the exact same classes for different distros will have a
high probability to fail even for quite resembling versions/distro's -
package names can and will differ, locations of files you try to edit,
all that stuff.

> That's probably less a question of fai mechanics and infrastructure
> support, but more of fai organisation of configs. So this should
> probably be discussed separately, but it is still an interesting
> topic.

I believe you should make up a naming scheme, for example prefix any
class ( or at least any that is specific to a distribution) with the
distribution name. This is not exactly how I'd like to see it, but FAI
has no mechanisms to store any meta data for the classes (yet), so you'd
need to abuse the class name.

Building an abstraction layer that can unify such things is something
very hard, if not impossible at all. I don't even think about doing this
yet - I'd be happy if only the current plans will be realized some day.

> [...]
> 
> I'm looking forward to it, thanks!

Don't hesitate to ask how you can help if you happen to find some spare
time :)

Henning