[wpkg-users] [Bug 79] Major WPKG enhancements, remote logging, doc, internal restructuring

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Jerome Haltom schrieb:
> Linux machines already have such technology. A few choices in fact. I
> use Apt.
> 
> I configure my own Apt repositories, I upload packages I need to them. I
> make sure each host is configured to point at the proper apt repository,
> and use the distro's built in upgrade mechanisms.

That's for installing whole programs rather than running custom scripts.


> If I need advanced scripting, I just build my own .deb files. It's super
> easy and can be done with nothing more than a collection of text files.
> And versioning is handled automatically, dependencies, etc.

Building a .deb file to just run:

echo "foo bar" >> /etc/sudoers


Doesn't seem super easy and fast to me.
And some distros prefer rpm. So I'd have to build at least two kind of 
packages just to run simple scripts - no thanks.


And still, you have to remember about machines which were unreachable or 
offline (yes, packaging system will reject to install a package twice, 
but still, it's not very elegant). It may depend on how you start the 
installation of such packages, of course.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org