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Re: [Xml2hostconf-users] Modified for up2date

[Erik S. <eri...@gm...>]

> In any event, I wonder if it's possible to use xml2hostconf with up2date
> (has someone modified it)? And/or what the issues would be.

I have no experience with up2date so I don't know. Maybe someone else knows?
cheers,
Erik

[Xml2hostconf-users] Modified for up2date

[Forrest A. <fo...@fo...>]

Hi there,

I found this project recently - in seeking a better means to deploy (en 
masse) Linux systems.

In my case, the systems are CentOS-4.3 and Redhat AS.  Both have their 
slight differences.

You can't really use "yum" on Redhat AS, and are stuck with up2date -- 
at least, my research shows that.  Unless someone else knows a clever 
way to get around this.  Not to circumvent anything, we have official 
paid support, but for sake of maintenance sanity, I'd like to keep this 
clean and uniform.

In any event, I wonder if it's possible to use xml2hostconf with up2date 
(has someone modified it)?  And/or what the issues would be.


Thanks!

[Xml2hostconf-users] old dependencies are not automatically uninstalled

[Erik <eri...@ho...>]

If you generate a newer version of a rpm package where the
newer version dropped one of its dependencies, the package that
is not a dependency anymore will not automatically get uninstalled when
you do a "apt-get dist-upgrade". After the dist-upgrade there is nothing
blocking you from doing a "apt-get remove not_needed_package" though.

I haven't checked if it's the same situation for yum.

cheers,
Erik Sjölund

[Xml2hostconf-users] gpg signing the generated rpm packages

[Erik <eri...@ho...>]

On fedora core 2 you need to have something like

RPM
{ 
  GPG-Check "false"; 
};

in your /etc/apt/apt.conf because right now xml2hostconf in it current
form doesn't generate signed rpm packages.

The analogy for /etc/yum.conf is 

gpgcheck=0


Future plans for adding support for signed rpm packages to xml2hostconf
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

You could already now tweak the script

xml2hostconf/src/shellscripts/build_rpms.sh

to make xml2hostconf generate signed rpm packages, but the problem is
that you will have to type the pass phrase for each generated rpm ( a
bit tedious to do ).

The problem is that rpmbuild is the one asking for the pass phrase, not 
gpg. So using gpg-agent won't help you.

Some more reading:

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2004-January/021302.html

cheers,
Erik Sjölund

[Xml2hostconf-users] a newer version of xmllint recommended

[Erik <eri...@ho...>]

A bug was found in xmllint that is now fixed ( 2004-06-08 ):
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143880
If you have an xmllint with this bug, the "make validate" rule will just
produce error messages if your xml2hostconf configuration files are
non-valid. The return value will be a success, though.

The consequence of this bug is that if you have an old xmllint ( i.e.
older than 2004-06-08 ) you cannot rely on xml2hostconf own checking
that your configuration files follow the correct xml schema.

An alternative way to write valid configuration files is by using the
nxml-mode in emacs when you edit the configuration files.

But if you feel confident that you write correct configuration files
you have nothing to worry about, xml2hostconf will produce correct
output just as normal.

cheers,
Erik Sjölund