Re: ARK/Arusha Core Competence

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:36:52PM -0400, Harlan Stenn wrote:
> Just my opinions:
> 
> > 	- third-party package builds and deployment,
> > 	  like LUDE
> > 	  http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/lude/lude2_toc.html
> > 	  or depot
> > 	  http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/depot/depot.html
> 
> pretty much fully
> 
> > 	- operating system configuration, like cfengine
> > 	  http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/ 
> 
> Some, but I never "got" cfengine - I tried to use it several times and it
> never did "enough" for me.
> 
> What exactly do you mean by "os config"?

Operating system configuration ideally means maintaining the contents
of /etc/* -- basically all that non-application sysadmin gruntwork
that is site-specific and usually site-wide.   

> > 	- operating system completion and maintenance, like RedHat
> > 	  RPM/rpmfind/up2date/autorpm, or Debian apt/apt-get/dpkg, or
> > 	  Solaris pkgadd etc, or pick-your-vendorware. 
> 
> No idea...
> 
> > 	- bare-disk, initial formatting and installation of an
> > 	  operating system, like jumpstart, kickstart, or vendor
> > 	  initial install media.  
> 
> Probably not directly - I'm very interested in this and will be working on
> this, as I've had to automate this across several OSes (Solaris, IBM, some
> HP-UX, IRIX, and Tru64) and I want a set of tools to "do it right across a
> number of platforms".
> 
> I will need to find a way to pay for this effort...

<shameless plug> Not that it will pay you anything directly, but for
those lower-level layers you might want to take a look at
Infrastructures.Org, specifically
http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/bootstrap/bootstrap.html.  There
appears to be some shared philosophy between Arusha and the
Infrastructures.Org group.  </shameless plug> 

Steve
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