Arvados

Refer to this ops page for a sample of the kinds of values we need the configuration to support.

• Is there a meta-format that translates into both debconf and the RPM format?
• Is there a configuration package we can install as a dependency?
• Are there RPMs that use debconf? (There are debconf RPMs.) Should we do that instead?
• Are there differences in the way we generate configuration files from these configuration systems?
• What can be written once, and what must be written twice?

FAI might be one place to look for solutions here.

Timeboxing this at three normal days. ("Normal days" include things like routine meetings, but not things like systems catching fire.) We hope that the three days can include the investigation plus an RPM+deb prototype package pair.