Re: Feature request ... or How to.

On Mon, 3 May 2010, Les Mikesell wrote:

> I've always thought this was a serious omission in all of the package 
> managers and that it would be really useful to be able to take any arbitrary 
> machine that might have been carefully tuned for a specific purpose and 
> 'publish' its package list.   Then anyone else who wanted a similar setup 
> could tell his package manager to duplicate it without having to repeat the 
> work of researching and choosing the package list.  It would be even better 
> if you could 'subscribe' to a published list and track the exact versions 
> installed on the master copy so you wouldn't do updates until you knew 
> someone had tested the new version combinations already.


The problem is not the pkg list - we have that - debug-dump gives you a 
good approximation - the problem is you need to couple that with 
configs.

And by the time you've done that you're better off using kickstart + 
configmgmt - like puppet or cfengine or bcfg2.

-sv