Re: [Radmind-users] [Ext] sth0's pull requests

[Scott H. <st...@ma...>]

James,

I have a large infrastructure of machines that are managed by radmind for checking and updating applications as well as updating various data and configuration files.  Not sure how this will survive if I ever retire.  I have a command files for each of several OS versions from Leopard through Sonoma (I skip a few).  Hopefully the Leopard computers will be retired this year but I have been saying that for the last 5 years.

Since the OS and Safari are now locked in immutable sections  of the file system, the process is much simpler.  I get a snapshot of all files after a clean install of the OS and then add in my transcripts for the generic applications, configuration and data files.  This is all very fast and simple.  I guess the hard part is getting the first machine and installing applications one by one and then capturing the changes.

I agree that you should fork libsnet and bring it into the radmind GitHub.  I have a couple of tweaks that allows building the library as a fat (arm64 and x86_64) binary,

I have a patch for fixing that crash, but it now is giving me headaches in trying to create a pull request for it.

The install is just the executables into /usr/bin/local and I haven’t tried building a new installer package.  i would like to try updating the Radmind Server Manger to a 64 bit app since that is the only GUI I use.

-Scott


> On Feb 16, 2024, at 11:54, James Reynolds <rey...@bi...> wrote:
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> Well, I would like to still use radmind. When I quit using radmind I lost a lot of confidence in my computers. It's just hard to get started back up. If I can figure out how to make it easy, I might start using it for some thing, not for deploying software though.
> 
> I also want to make it a lot easier to install.
> 
> I also need to move the network library to Github.
> 
> I wish some of the original developers were willing to talk about the code. I've reached out to a few of them and they all seem to want nothing to do with it.
> 
> James Reynolds
> Sr Systems Administrator
> School of Biological Sciences
> The University of Utah
> 801-585-3086
> 
>> On Feb 16, 2024, at 09:47, Scott Hannahs <sha...@us...> wrote:
>> 
>> WARNING: Stop. Think. Read. This is an external email.
>> 
>> The ability to cut and paste a transcript line into a shell command has made my life infinitely easier.  Ability to track down issues with permissions folders etc.  
>> 
>> It will still allow use of older transcripts with the \b notation.  BUT, new transcripts are written with the \<space> formatting.
>> 
>> Of course YMMV and some custom transcript manipulation transcripts might need fixing.  Of course I might be the only one still using radmind.  :-)
>> 
>> (note the patch for the memory leak seems to have caused a crash in certain circumstances.  I am investigating now).
>> 
>> -Scott
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 16, 2024, at 11:11, James Reynolds <rey...@bi...> wrote:
>>> 
>>> sth0 made some pull requests and I've merged some and wanted to ask what anyone on the list thinks of one.
>>> 
>>> Merged:
>>> 
>>> - Patch to ignore timestamps with -t option for smaller transcripts (changes fsdiff)
>>> - sth-memory leak in OpenSSL calls - Bug fixes
>>> 
>>> Seeking comments:
>>> 
>>> - Allow \<space> to replace \b to represent blanks in file names. 
>>> 
>>> I don't use radmind anymore, but when I was, this would've some of my custom scripts. So I'm asking about it here first.
>>> 
>>> James Reynolds
>>> Sr Systems Administrator
>>> School of Biological Sciences
>>> The University of Utah
>>> 801-585-3086
>> 
>> 
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