On 26 Jan 2010, at 2:25 pm, Mark Burgess wrote: > > This seems reasonable. I am spoiled using zypper which does this > automatically.
It's arguable that apt's separation of the two functions is sensible. I have more than 2000 machines; and have already once been blacklisted by one apt repository site for hammering their repository - this despite the fact that I was going through a web proxy, but this site didn't like even a couple of dozen checks a day from the web proxy! By having the functionality separate, you can have the update much less frequent than you actually check whether the machine's packages are up to date. That way, I limit the machines to getting update package lists to only once a day, by using ifelapsed, but they can still use apt any number of other times in the day without bothering the upstream sites unnecessarily. On our SLES10 machines I have the reverse problem, that zypper *always* seems to connect to the upstream source, even to do things which don't really need it. This makes package installations through zypper rather slow. Maybe there's a way to tell it not to bother? Tim -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list [email protected] https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
