fai next level WAS: apt-get failures -- blah!

[Geert Stappers]

At 1:11 +0100 11/14/01, Diane Trout wrote:
>> But have a closer look at cfengine, which is made for daily
>> maintainance and making changes to the system. Maybe you only need to
>> write some more cfegine scripts.
>
>That reminds me of how I was thinking about solving the apt-get problem.
>
>I was thinking of writing a package that parsed something like the
>current FAI package_files and a cfengine classes list, and then
>installs or uninstalls packages to match its the list of packages that
>it's supposed to have.

Do we already have the syntax definition of the package_files?
Is FAI aware of unstalling packages?

>
>If this "apt-daemon" existed it would be rather easy to update systems
>instead of having to go reinstall. The reliability of a FAI install
>should increase, mostly by shifting the complexity off to this
>package.

A daemon.
Sounds like "push". http://www.infrastructures.org says us "pull"

http://www.infrastructures.org/cgi-bin/bootstrap.cgi?xql=/bootstrap/section[@nam
e=%22pushpull%22]

>
>In principal the advantages are that upgrades can be done completely
>remotely and as automatically as you feel safe with. Also updates that
>fail because someone was hasn't finished uploading all the debian
>dependencies should be able to retry again later.
>
>Any comments?

Tell us more.
Speak also to the apt develop team.
"Go ahead" ;-)

>
>diane


Geert