Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: How to make a policy server watch a subversion server for changes? Author: mwlarsen Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,17833,17838#msg-17838
Thanks for your response David, I appreciate you trying to help. But the only thing I understood from your post is that you're using cfengine to update subversion. The rest of it went straight over my head. I'm a complete noob to both cfengine and subversion; I'm trying to learn them from examples I can dig up on the web. My background is strictly hardware and OS with a little simple shell/perl scripting. I have zero development experience. I hadn't thought about cfengine updating subversion, can you explain why you would do that? It's seems kind of backwards from what I had in mind, although I might be misinterpreting what you said. I was thinking in terms of subversion updates being manual and deliberate, and the cfengine policy server watching for some sort of indication a manual commit had taken place, figuring out what files had been updated, then pulling those files over to the policy server for distribution. Having cfengine do the subversion updates seems kind of risky to me. How would it know what to commit? I suspect the answer is in your statement: "So when I update trunk it immediately goes out to test systems, and then once up roll the changes up to the production tag the real systems get it." But I don't understand what you said there. I'll study it and see if I can figure it out. Thanks again for trying to help. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
