On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, kevin lyda wrote:

> and i know you meant that good naturedly, but if you have more then a
> few boxes in production you should really look into scripting a lot of
> admin tasks.

Amen, brother. Actually, what I'd like us to do as an OS community is
come up with a standardised way of managing source/binary patches, rather
than having everyone rolling their own (or not doing anything). (Of
course, rolling your own is a fine thing and anything we do should no
preclude that either!)

I intend to put my money where my mouth is on this one, and to that end I
did some embryonic work along these lines earlier in the year, essentially
building on the ports infrastructure. It's nowhere near finished or ready
for prime time.

Adrian Close email: adrianclose.wattle.id.au
1 Old Gippsland Rd. web: http://www.close.wattle.id.au/~adrian
Lilydale, VIC, 3140, Australia mobile: +61 412 385 201

P.S. This is been a somewhat contentious issue in the past and I have no
intention of stirring up bad blood. But if people are interested (and I
know there are some out there) I'd like to work on it with them... ;)

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