Looks like my emails are not getting through to the
fink lists. Maybe these two links will get through. I would like to get some discussion going about what
is the best way to deploy fink to a large number of
machines at a site. Please give these two links a
read and let me know what you think. I can summarize
and post it back or we can discuss it on the list if
there is general interest.
Thanks! -kurt BTW, This email does not represent NASA, JPL, or UofA. This is posted as me the grad student/fink package submitter.
Here is my description of what it would take to make Mac OSX the OS for NASA Mars flight operations:
http://schwehr.org/blog/archives/2005-01.html#e2005-01-15T07_35_41.txt
Questions about deploying fink across a large number of machines (look for the bulleted list):
http://schwehr.org/blog/archives/2005-01.html#e2005-01-13T08_46_16.txt
I maintain a private Fink repository for 20 developers or so and just add packages that are requested by the team. Each developer uses rsync to update their entire /sw tree every so once in a while when a new or updated package is out. They don't run 'fink install' themselves to manage their own trees, rather, they request changes in the tree from me and I make them, and then they rsync.
This probably works well for a small team where a smaller subset of Fink is needed, but if you're supporting a large number of people with many different packages, then it runs into a problem with the amount of disk space.
The other issue with running rsync is that some packages, such as anacron, don't get their post installation scripts run, so they don't make changes to the system that need to. I recommend the users run something like 'fink rebuild anacron' or run the post install script by hand for these few packages.
I haven't had any issues with kernel panics with pre-bound libraries at all, and this is across Powerbooks and dual G5s.
Regards, Blair
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