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Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 02:15:05PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>It would be great to port Puppet to Cygwin.  
>
>Puppet's scope on a Cygwin host is going to be more limited than on Linux,
>just because Cygwin's scope is limited.  Puppet could easily manage
>Cygwin's file and services, but managing Windows files and services would
>take more work because the environment is so different.  And as for Windows
>packages-- forget it.  Windows can't even manage those!
>
>Still, just automating deployment and configuration of the Cygwin
>environment would be a good place to start and would very helpful.
>
>I think that the main hurdle is likely to be package management.  Someone
>would have to create a package management back end for Cygwin.  Should it
>be based on setup.exe?  setup's package management capabilities appear to
>be very small.  cyg-apt (http://code.google.com/p/cyg-apt/) is another
>possibility.
>
>As for services, with luck Puppet should be able to manage Cygwin init
>services OOTB.  Windows services would take more work but probably wouldn't
>be too bad.
>
>File management might require an extra parameter for text vs. binary mounts
>(ugh), but should work as is otherwise.
>
>Anyone else interested in this?  There's a still-small wiki page about
>Puppet in Cygwin at http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetCygwin.
>If you are interested, please start contributing there.

Shouldn't there have been an explanation of what Puppet is and why it is
useful somewhere above?

cgf

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