Re: syncing files....

[Will Lowe]

> For Debian, just run a shellcommand:
> /usr/bin/apt-get --yes install  packagename
> where 'packagename' is somethng like libc6  and not libc6_1.9.6-2.deb,
> and all required dependencies will be fetched and installed also.
>
> I had a problem with apt-get not finding required commands due to
> the path cfengine runs shellcommands with, and ended up calling a
> wrapper script.  I admit I didn't spend much time looking into how
> cfengine sets its shellcommand path, so there may be a better way.

You also need to be careful about debconf promptings and dpkg's
conffile-replace-or-keep questions. This is something close to what
I'm currently using, running it as a shellcommand:

http://thebackrow.net/~harpo/debian/cfengine/

autoapt.pl assumes some things about your hostname conventions, but it
should be straightforward enough to hack.  In the long term I should
probably modify it to use CFALLCLASSES or whatever.

It also assumes you're going to keep the old versions of your
conffiles -- all the conffiles I care about are managed by my cfengine
setup anyway -- and that you're happy with the default debconf answers
or have already modified them via something like debconf-copydb.

-- 
                                        thanks,
                
                                        Will