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author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2021-03-02 18:57:14 -0700 |
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committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2021-03-02 18:57:14 -0700 |
commit | 08b1ef1c90c820c99a9e8ce9f3cf92682f6e15a2 (patch) | |
tree | c5e2e6dfa91a7ef50d34deeb2c524cacfb0492c3 /debian | |
parent | db43b834e8041d60d1e9a578d64a516fdbac8860 (diff) | |
download | consfigurator-08b1ef1c90c820c99a9e8ce9f3cf92682f6e15a2.tar.gz |
rewrite second paragraph of README
Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
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diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 6b42ba1..bcdf065 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -33,13 +33,15 @@ Description: Lisp declarative configuration management system unprivileged users, build and deploy containers, and produce disc images. . Consfigurator's design gives you a great deal of flexibility about how to - control the hosts you want to configure. Input and output streams attached - to an interactive POSIX sh running on the target host (or in the target - container) is sufficient to use much of Consfigurator's functionality. But - if it is possible to get an implementation of Common Lisp started up on the - host, then Configurator can transparently execute your deployment code over - on the remote side, rather than exchanging information via POSIX sh. This - lets you use the full power of Common Lisp to deploy your configuration. + control the hosts you want to configure. If there is a command you can run + which will obtain input and output streams attached to an interactive POSIX + sh running on the target host/container, then with a little glue code, you + can use much of Consfigurator's functionality to configure that + host/container. But if it is possible to get an implementation of Common + Lisp started up on the host, then Configurator can transparently execute your + deployment code over on the remote side, rather than exchanging information + via POSIX sh. This lets you use the full power of Common Lisp to deploy your + configuration. . Configurator has convenient abstractions for combining these different ways to execute your configuration on hosts with different ways of connecting to |