Hi Tim, Tim Cutts wrote: > >> trivial with pdsh >> >> pdsh apt-get install package >
Well with dsh it's the same, but "our" way ensures that the nodes will have the exactly same set-up after a reinstallation ;) > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \ > /usr/bin/aptitude -R -y \ > -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" \ > -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" \ > install "$@" > > This forces aptitude not to ask you what to do with the configuration > files, if they've been locally modified, but also forces it to be > conservative, always use your existing configuration file, if it's > already present. Otherwise it configures the package defaults. Combine > this little script with cfengine, dsh or whatever, and you have a winner. > Brutally you could also use "yes yes" ;) > You can even use it to remove things, because aptitude install accepts > suffixes to tell it to do other things. For example, say you wanted to > replaced lprng with cups, you can do that in one fell swoop with: > > aptitude install lprng- cupsys > > (this is another reason I switched from apt-get to aptitude, although > I'd caution against using aptitude like this in sarge - the version in > etch and later is fine, but the old sarge one can bite occasionally) yes, that's also my reason why I prefer aptitude over apt For completeness: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ Cheers Carsten _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
