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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/

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