Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 17:45:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg? Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1407181741590.21571@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <53C92C53.9030509@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAG=rPVcyqq2072%2BgF_X91BocxykJB6%2BU0cMhaNexxfVFpVqUbA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=p6-7KCL8C09O4dPq04pitW5wDbtsDAyz-u4Qtr7rpRA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGZBXN8-Gq1=w8SBHCw26ZX4a29KHBx%2B4FV9XGK1HJiCOGuJ9A@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=8uAXqmX8D%2BoP%2B63dHWVKN6cn8wBH0HNsVmUciNRF1BA@mail.gmail.com> <53C82EC4.8060304@gmail.com> <CAPS9%2BSuswkJNuwhT=o%2B7sBQpbaN0-jhnRK5drugqZw54%2BqzgzA@mail.gmail.com> <53C83EB4.2060202@infracaninophile.co.uk> <53C9229D.8090406@freebsd.org> <53C928B3.50004@infracaninophile.co.uk> <53C92BDB.1060503@freebsd.org> <53C92C53.9030509@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 07/18/14 15:14, Allan Jude wrote: >> So you mean like, a phpmyadmin-apache-config metapackage, that depends >> on apache and phpmyadmin, but installs an enabled, working config? > > Exactly. Here at MIT, our Athena systems have something like 40 different config packages to customize the configuration of our (Debian/Ubuntu-based) systems. Our Debathena project makes such heavy use of configuration packages that very early on, we wrote some infrastructure to make it easier to create and manage them: http://debathena.mit.edu/config-packages/ I would love to see a similar toolkit for FreeBSD. -Ben
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