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On February 7, 2003 01:41 pm, Vano D wrote:
> Sorry for double posting.
>
> If that idea is extended and assuming that you have different machines
> with different specs in a big organisation you want to deploy
> gentoo clients to, you can in effect have a
> "configuration management center" server to configure and
> manage software in all of the gentoo machines in that organisation.
>
> Ofcourse if all machines have the same specs you can still use this system
> but without the need to compile software for each machine.
>
> I think the idea is very interesting and can be usefull.

Which brings up a ver old idea that I again posted on gentoo last summer about 
having a script exporting all config file in an xml database/tree and have 
utilities developped to display/present/change this information and then make 
that information transform back into the original /etc files.

One could then export the xml and re-import it inside another system.  Even 
better, would be that you could configure more than simply linux because the 
notion of "users" can easily exists in other system and using xslt on an xml 
could help converting it to another similar format for the target platform.

-- 

Yannick Koehler


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