Sunday, August 12, 2007

What are Software Packages?

This is just a reminder, what software packages are (from Wikipedia):

"A software package is a bundle of one or several files that either are necessary for the execution of a computer program, or add features for a program already installed on the computer or network of computers."

Packages should _NOT_ configure itself. Better let a configuration engine like puppet or bcfg2 do the job.

The configuration of a self-configuring package is often lost. It is better to save a configuration somewhere centrally (for ITIL freaks in the CMDB).

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