I see this as a feature on the website, but I can't easily find references to it in mailling lists or the wiki.
First, a little background and what I want. I've build a couple of systems like openpkg (although not nearly as complete) and one iteration had a concept of a configuration package seperate from a binary package. There could be many config packages that depended on the same binary package. For instance you could have to webservers, one represented by fooweb1-apache-config and fooweb2-apache-config. These two packages would depend on apache and would run the binaries with two different configurations. Now, I'd like to know how close I can get to this with openpkg. I see lsync, but I'm not sure it fits the bill. It seems more oriented around managing unpackaged software inside of an instance, rather than composing a virtual instance from a base instance plus specific tools. I could certainly be wrong, since there could be a way to make it work. You could maybe lsync from app specific instances to a master instance. In a simple case, where I don't have any other install dependencies, I could just create new instances for each apache. This would work but would get somewhat wasteful. I should say that I've been following openpkg for a long time (Siemens, was it?) but this is the first time I've actually used it. -Dave
