On 9 July 2015 at 05:54, John Dewey <john at dewey.ws> wrote: > IMO - registering the systems with subscription manager or pointing to in > house yum repos should be included as part of system bootstrapping, and not > a part of OSAD. OSAD should simply install the specific packages for the > alternate distro. > Agreed, trying to cater for all things that everyone wants in their bootstrapping is a rabbit hole best not ventured into as it'll bloat the project considerably. > Might also be a good time to abstract the system packaging module into a > higher level one which handles `yum` or `apt` behind the scenes. We can > then manage the list of packages per distro[1]. Throwing this out as an > idea vs copy-paste every apt with a yum section. > Ansible appears to be building this abstraction already for v2 [1], but has a means to do this in an alternative way [2]. [1] https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/blob/devel/packaging/os/package.py [2] http://serverfault.com/a/697736 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20150721/a6f9fa10/attachment.html>