Linux support?

Chris Farnsworth

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Jul 25, 2001, 11:57:24 AM7/25/01

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Which Linux distributions (if any) does cfengine support? Also, I'm almost certain there was a list of supported platforms on the cfengine website, but I can't seem to find that information now. Is this info still online somewhere? Thanks,

Chris

Alex

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Jul 25, 2001, 2:09:44 PM7/25/01

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Looking at cfengine.c from the 1.6.3 release it seems that Red Hat, SuSE,
Slackware, Debian and Mandrake classes are defined.

Regards,

Alex

Pekka Savola

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Jul 25, 2001, 4:59:40 PM7/25/01

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"Chris Farnsworth" <christopher...@oracle.com> wrote:
> Which Linux distributions (if any) does cfengine support? Also, I'm almost certain there was a list of supported platforms on the cfengine website, but I can't seem to find that information now. Is this info still online somewhere? Thanks,

Pretty much every one of them.

Not many have cfengine packages in the distribution though. I think
only suse and debian do; they aren't installed by default.

I wonder if there would be interest for Red Hat .rpm's -- I've been
maintaining them, more or less, internally for about two years.

As mentioned in another post, some classes are defined for most common
distro's, but that doesn't limit the "support" in any way.
Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore dot fi
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David Masterson

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Jul 25, 2001, 5:53:16 PM7/25/01

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>>>>> "Pekka" == Pekka Savola <pek...@netcore.fi> writes:

> I wonder if there would be interest for Red Hat .rpm's -- I've been
> maintaining them, more or less, internally for about two years.

Do you have a script that can take a CFEngine distribution and build
an RPM and an SRPM from it? Perhaps something that could be fixed up
by "configure" and hooked into the Makefile so that it would do the
right thing no matter how Mark changes the organization of CFEngine
(within reason)? If so, you could probably get Mark to include that
in the contrib area of the distribution.

That, in turn, might prompt Red Hat to include CFEngine in its
distribution. 8-)

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David Masterson
Sr. R&D Engineer
Synopsys, Inc.

Pekka Savola

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Jul 26, 2001, 11:09:00 AM7/26/01

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David Masterson <dma...@synopsys.com> wrote:
>> I wonder if there would be interest for Red Hat .rpm's -- I've been
>> maintaining them, more or less, internally for about two years.
>
>Do you have a script that can take a CFEngine distribution and build
>an RPM and an SRPM from it? Perhaps something that could be fixed up
>by "configure" and hooked into the Makefile so that it would do the
>right thing no matter how Mark changes the organization of CFEngine
>(within reason)? If so, you could probably get Mark to include that
>in the contrib area of the distribution.

Generating .rpm files is not too difficult a job. There isn't much to
change between releases unless the directory structure changes
considerably, there are some new bugs that have to be dealt with (thid
is the most work) etc.

>That, in turn, might prompt Red Hat to include CFEngine in its
>distribution. 8-)

I don't see this happening with current cfengine.

Pekka Savola

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Jul 28, 2001, 5:09:49 PM7/28/01

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Pekka Savola <pek...@netcore.fi> wrote:
>Generating .rpm files is not too difficult a job. There isn't much to
>change between releases unless the directory structure changes
>considerably, there are some new bugs that have to be dealt with (thid
>is the most work) etc.

A snapshot (src.rpm and i386.rpm for RHL71) of 1.6.3 is available at:

http://www.netcore.fi/pekkas/linux/