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Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:51:36 -0500
- Subject: Re: Puppet in Cygwin [ping Reini]
- References: <l070h5drme2nia2aq0rg2c8kc83kj2c6gn@4ax.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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