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@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@ -Release 0.6 - $Id: $ - -Bcfg2 is a configuration management tool based on a few simple principles. - - All aspects of system configuration can be described by the configuration - management system. - - All aspects of system configuration are described by the configuration - management system. This allows the detection of extra configuration - that contributes to system behavior. - - Services must be management coherently. This means that the tool must - be able to determine how to correctly install all aspects of configuration, - and verify that these are active before a host is determined to be clean. - This property is implemented using bundles, a construct that is similar - to closures [1]. - -The state of the code is as follows. The server side is fairly solid, -and will continue working in the presence of generator faults. The -client side fully supports debian toolsets, and all of the standard -posix constructs used for configuration management (configuration -files, symlinks, directories, etc) - -The code is currently being used in production to manage debian -systems. There is client support for other architectures, but it -hasn't been well tested. - -The source tree is structured in the following way: - -doc/ - documentation -src/ - source code -schemas/ - schemas defining the data format for configuration files - -[1] Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach - to Configuration Management, Alva Couch, John Hart, - Elizabeth G. Idhaw, and Dominic Kallas, in the proceedings of LISA03 |