X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:51:36 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini] Message-ID: <20091128025136.GB5133@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:15:05PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote: >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. Shouldn't there have been an explanation of what Puppet is and why it is useful somewhere above? cgf -- 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