[Pardus-devel] Fwd: Proposal (Again)

[Nicolas Lara]

On 7/3/07, Gürer Özen <gurer at pardus.org.tr> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 22:17:41 Nicolas Lara wrote:
>
> > As promised I expanded my proposal to better explain the idea of the
> config
> > manager.
>
> Thanks, well prepared, took a bit of time to read it, here are my
> thoughts:
>
> Monitoring /etc seems a very good idea. It is not limited to a local copy,
> you
> can keep several servers' configuration in a central repository for
> example.


Good idea :)   Im thinking that with that maybe having interesting
configurations available for download could also be done in the future.
(something like: I want apache configured with cacti and virtual hosts..
well, lets downloaded from the config repo...).

I didn't understand the "adding inotify module to kernel" part, if you are
> talking about inotify support, that is already included in all Pardus
> kernels
> as it is very useful and used in many places. If you talking about our
> /etc
> monitor application, that is bad design to put something belongs to
> userspace
> to the kernel.



I didn't know the support was already in the kernel. I just did ls
/dev/inotify  and assumed the, since the device wasn't there, that the
kernel was not build with inotify support. Of course the monitoring app
should be in userspace :)


Config API is hard to evaluate. Hopefully it can be implemented as a python
> module in separate package, and can be used in some packages to test.
>
> Provide part is not necessary. You can already create a class in Comar
> model,
> and configure the application with a separate script providing such class.


I don't understand much of Comar because i haven't used it too much and
there's not much documentation in english. I liked a lot the provide part
:p, but if comar already handles it better.


For user settings, it is best to not mix package-manager in and use a custom
> settings application.


You mean to create an application to manage user settings? That is the same
thing I propose for user settings only that the config scripts should come
with the packages.


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Thanks for the reply :)

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