> i love dpkg-repack! you can setup a box, then recreate the .deb with > your settings, and install it anywhere. (ok, my debian network is four > machines, so this approach may be worth just 0.02$...)
Nice solution...I was looking into creating a dummy package of just the config files we needed to install a configuration specific to our setup, but this might work as well. Question: apt-get is a noticebly interactive program...what kind of problems does one run into when running it from a cronjob or the like? This is the major issue in applications involving many machines, as I want to keep the machines up to date (or at least up to what I say is the up to date version at the moment), yet I don't have the resources to ssh into each box and do an apt-get. Hiring college students to do this isn't an option, either. =) Daniel
