On 3/31/06, Edward F. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, March 31, 2006 12:34 pm, Digant C Kasundra said: > > > > * Undo last set of actions > > This sounds like a reasonable thing to expect of a configuration > management tool. But I'm very skeptical that it's realistic, or > desirable. ... The > way to undo a set of actions has to involve thinking about what needs to > be done, and to enter new configurations. > > -Ed
It depends a lot on what you are rolling back, and what the intended purpose of the modification was. Reverting a modified file to a previous edit, un-deleting a file, un-copying a file, resetting permisisons, and the like are very simple to roll-back. Installing/deinstalling an application, restarting a service, etc are much more difficult to undo. Similarly "maintenance" updates should be easy to track and roll-back; but if you use cfe to impliment large-scale changes to a system it may not be possible to reverse the process in a clean way. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org http://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
