On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 09/14/2009 05:35 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> A week or two ago someone mentioned something about using their own >> home-grown RPMs for managing config info on their boxes. > > this is a really really bad idea. I'd suggest you dont waste your time > around this and instead work with projects like chef / puppet / bcfg2 > and look at those to manage what they do - config and state. I second that. All the listed options are great. If you want to manage configurations on a server, use something designed for configuration management. Using RPM to manage configs will probably leave you with halfway broken machines and no clue about what we wrong. -jonathan