Dean Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been thinking a bit about the need for mass-installations. Having
> done a few of them, it gets to be a tad tedious ...
>
> Currently, the preinst and postinst scripts ask the user questions, and
> make changes according to the responses. Instead of that, we need a
> general service script that processes a package-specific file containing
> questions and answer-variables. The results of this get appended to
> an installation response file that each package can source to retrieve
> the answers it needs. Hrmm, got that ?
This solves only one problem: Questions asked during the installation.
It does not solve the problems you encounter when setting up e.g. a
beowulf type system.
What do you do with an NFS mounted /usr partition?
How do you traverse setup information to all nodes?
How do you handle different setups for different nodes?
a clueless,
Jens
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