From: Stuart Henderson (sthenopenbsd.org)
Date: Wed May 01 2013 - 15:25:55 CDT

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On 2013/05/01 16:11, Jiri B wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 08:40:22PM +0200, Martijn Rijkeboer wrote:
> >
> > > Trying to work through the tutorial with this and I'm a bit confused
> > > about where files are being installed. This isn't helped by the tutorials
> > > seeming to be for older versions (we can't really do much about that),
> > > but the current set of samples don't seem to make a lot of sense,
> > > I'll see if I can work out what's going on, but I get the impression
> > > sample'ing things into inputs/ is fairly wrong..
> >
> > I agree that sample'ing files is fairly wrong, but some people were really
> > strong about it. I would rather instruct the user in the README how to do
> > a basic setup or refer to the "Cfengine Quick Start Guide".
>
> I was one of those 'strong' 'coz community cfengine doesn't need any
> manual action, so why do we need it?

Your plist with config files sample'd into inputs/ seriously confused
me and held back testing ;)

> Anyway, if a user should do something manually, then guarantee
> pkg tools won't scream bullshit about some file unable to delete.

pkg_delete -c will whine about removed files, there is nothing we can do
about that, but apart from that it will be fine.

>
> > It could be as simple as:
> >
> > To setup a policy hub perform the following steps:
> > 1. Create key-pair and necessary directories by executing cf-key
> > 2. Copy sample configuration files to /var/cfengine/masterfiles
> > 3. Edit configuration files accordingly
> > 4. Bootstrap hub with cf-agent --bootstrap --policy-server <own IP>
> ^ why is this in policy hub if this is client? yes, even policy hub
> would like to have agent but if you want to make such steps then
> move them to right section
>
> > To setup a client perform the following steps:
> > 1. Create key-pair and necessary directories by executing cf-key
> > 2. Bootstrap client with cf-agent --bootstrap --policy-server <hub IP>
> >
> > During bootstrapping the files are copied from the masterfiles directory
> > on the policy host to the inputs directory on the clients. When the files
> > are successfully copied the host is bootstrapped.
>
> If you want to have a polichy hub... ;)
>
> Please let it be commited, only if it would be in the ports tree
> more people using OpenBSD could help and test.
>
> jirib

I am working on it.

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