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Date: | Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:20:56 +0100 |
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Andrew Schulman schrieb: > It would be great to port Puppet to Cygwin. > > Puppet's scope on a Cygwin host is going to be more limited than on Linux, > just because Cygwin's scope is limited. Puppet could easily manage > Cygwin's file and services, but managing Windows files and services would > take more work because the environment is so different. And as for Windows > packages-- forget it. Windows can't even manage those! > > Still, just automating deployment and configuration of the Cygwin > environment would be a good place to start and would very helpful. > > I think that the main hurdle is likely to be package management. Someone > would have to create a package management back end for Cygwin. Should it > be based on setup.exe? setup's package management capabilities appear to > be very small. cyg-apt (http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/) is another > possibility. > > As for services, with luck Puppet should be able to manage Cygwin init > services OOTB. Windows services would take more work but probably wouldn't > be too bad. > > File management might require an extra parameter for text vs. binary mounts > (ugh), but should work as is otherwise. > > Anyone else interested in this? There's a still-small wiki page about > Puppet in Cygwin at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetCygwin. > If you are interested, please start contributing there. [Ping Reini] I guess you are referring to my question on the wiki: "via ruby's windows port you can have something running natively instead of the cygwin "hack" (cyg->cfengine->activeperl->Win32::OLE), which is better when deploying nodes." "Please describe that someone, and I'll take over. --rurban" But I cannot remember anymore. And I'm really busy with perl now. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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