06-26-2016
Hi,
I'm a sysadmin who does a lot of automating too.
Your script maybe good for a start. I have some points for you:
- Yous script could use some improvements to make it simpler. But hey! It works? It may stay as it is.
- Maybe you want a result mailed to you when the installation is read, so you know when something had failed and you'll be informed to fix it. Of course your system needs a configured mailer to do this.
- Another buzzword of automation "idempotency": Run it as often as you want, you get always the correct result. What's regarding your script, this point should be fulfilled. Nothing bad should happen if you call it more than once, except some download trash is accumulating. So cleaning up after your script runs is a good idea.
- You may go with your own scripts, but things tend to get more complex. So you may choose one of the configuration management or automated install systems. I'm using FAI(Nice,Primarily for Debian/Ubuntu, but also possible for CentOS(I use it to install CentOS 6+7) for automated install and chef(quite complex, steep learning curve) for configuration management. If you stay with centos, kickstart may be more convenient for you for the topic of automatic installation. And what I've read ansible is a more easy approach than chef, if you want to manage your nodes after installation.
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dh_bugfiles
DH_BUGFILES(1) Debhelper DH_BUGFILES(1)
NAME
dh_bugfiles - install bug reporting customization files into package build directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_bugfiles [-A] [debhelperoptions]
DESCRIPTION
dh_bugfiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing bug reporting customization files (bug scripts and/or bug control
files and/or presubj files) into package build directories.
FILES
debian/package.bug-script
This is the script to be run by the bug reporting program for generating a bug report template. This file is installed as
usr/share/bug/package in the package build directory if no other types of bug reporting customization files are going to be installed
for the package in question. Otherwise, this file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/script. Finally, the installed script is given
execute permissions.
debian/package.bug-control
It is the bug control file containing some directions for the bug reporting tool. This file is installed as
usr/share/bug/package/control in the package build directory.
debian/package.bug-presubj
The contents of this file are displayed to the user by the bug reporting tool before allowing the user to write a bug report on the
package to the Debian Bug Tracking System. This file is installed as usr/share/bug/package/presubj in the package build directory.
OPTIONS
-A, --all
Install debian/bug-* files to ALL packages acted on when respective debian/package.bug-* files do not exist. Normally, debian/bug-*
will be installed to the first package only.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/reportbug/README.developers.gz
debhelper(1)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Modestas Vainius <modestas@vainius.eu>
11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_BUGFILES(1)