http://www.advogato.org/person/partain/ Advogato blog for partain en-us mod_virgule Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:49:29 GMT Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:17:28 GMT http://www.advogato.org/person/partain/diary.html?start=0 http://www.advogato.org/person/partain/diary.html?start=0 Checked in another tranche of <a href="http://ark.sourceforge.net">Arusha</a> code (blurb above), which brings a major goal much closer. <p> The goal is that <em>all</em> sysadmin ``added value'' about software installations (and, well, everything else, too :-) can be expressed in `packages' -- and that ``added value'' can be shared with other `teams' of sysadmins around the universe. <p> In particular, not only can a software install (e.g. tcp wrappers) be expressed as a package -- hardly a new idea -- but the <em>configuration</em> for said software can also be a package. Not only can fellow sysadmins elsewhere use the same software, but they can pick up on my install procedure and/or my local configuration by ``inheriting'' my relevant packages. (The Arusha Project brings <a href="http://ark.sourceforge.net/xml-objects.html">a kind of object orientation</a> to Unix sysadmin.) <p> Anyway, it's starting to work! See note above about project `uncles' (and `aunts') :-)