[sles-beta] php disappeared in beta6?

[Simon Flood]

On 16/05/2014 16:33, Tom Parker wrote:

> If the same is being done to ruby then puppet (which I use to register
> my clients to my smt server) will also not work out of the box.

The same is true for Ansible (not included with SLES) if python is removed.

I mention this because Ansible is something some colleagues (and myself 
as an interested party) are looking at as an alternative to AutoYaST 
where a server PXE boots and installs a minimal OS (possibly via minimal 
AutoYaST file), chroot to OS and uses Ansible to then build the server 
according to profile(s) assigned to it. I don't yet know all the details 
but the reason for looking at this is to solve a problem of having 
multiple AutoYaST scripts.

Now at this point I can see Matthias going "a-ha, that's modular". Well 
yes it is in the sense that (for example) Apache would only be installed 
if Ansible is building a web server but there wouldn't necessarily be 
any external network access during the build process plus registration 
is unlikely to change from now where we use internal YUM repos as 
opposed to NCC/SCC or SMT.

Simon
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Simon Flood
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University of Cambridge
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