FYI: updates, 20010204

Folks, I've done the usual and checked in everything into
CVS, and cut snapshots of same for FTP
(ftp://ark.sourceforge.net/pub/ark/ark-20010204-<team>.tar.gz)

That's all "ARK1" stuff; also a new tarball of the "ARK2"
stuff, such as it is. ftp:.../ark2-20010204.tar.gz

We've hit a couple of micro-milestones, one each for ARK1
and ARK2:

* In ARK1, not a single bit has changed on the core ARK
  framework since last time!  (i.e. the ARK:arkbase-py
  stuff).  All of the action is in the .xml files (*use* of
  the framework) -- a pattern I expect to see many times.

* In ARK2 (really just a rewrite of the self-same "core ARK
  framework"...), the approach is:

  1.  Use a sleazy conversion script to transmogrify your
  ARK1 xml files into their ARK2 equivalents; this works.

  2.  Run the new ARK:arkbase (ARK framework) against
  those.  Simple stuff is working.  The end is faintly in
  sight.

Now the details of the main changes since 2000-01-22...

* Matt's done a bunch of stuff to do KDE (2.0.1) under
  Solaris; also the Mozilla nightly builds; see sidai and
  glasli1 packages stuff.

* Other new package stuff for: openldap, mysql, sun
  staroffice, vtwm, xterm.

* Matt's stuff for a 'net-config' package is in.  This lets
  you set up /etc files from your site's .xml file info;
  e.g. the files defaultrouter, hostname.hme0, hosts.equiv,
  hosts, inetd.conf, netmasks, networks, nodename,
  protocols, resolv.conf, rpc, services.

* The sidai stuff for "dchunks" (disk chunks) has been
  significantly robustified.  From a single set of .xml
  files describing all your dchunks, you can generate an
  Amanda disklist (for backups), your automount maps, and
  your /etc/exports files.

  It's deeply underdocumented and still developing; will say
  more if anyone cares.

* Also on dchunks: sidai:dchunk-utils includes some *sample*
  scripts that convert existing /etc/fstab and /etc/auto_*
  (automount maps) files into dchunk data.  I used these to
  seed a site's dchunks/ directory.

  These are *sample* scripts -- you must edit them so that
  they make sense for your site.  More info on request.

* sidai:gen-utils includes a new script to find symlinks
  that point nowhere.  Used like this, to find all the duff
  symlinks in a dir:

  cd /dir
  find-junk-links

* sidai:amanda-server-config -- the excludes stuff has been
  split off into sidai-amanda-client-config (where it
  belongs).

* sidai:ark-cvs-source -- a proto-package to use when source
  needs to be pulled from CVS somewhere.

* (sidai-ish) license-files-* package things renamed to
  flexlm-config-* package things.

* Incidental tweaks (e.g. moving comments) which makes the
  ark2 converter less of a miserable hack :-)

Will