In Cfengine 3, you say "bulk" to avoid multiple invocation.
On 09/17/2010 11:41 AM, Tim Cutts wrote:
>
> On 17 Sep 2010, at 10:27 am, Seva Gluschenko wrote:
>
>> While I disagree with Mark about usefulness of exit status (at least
>> of exit status 0 in this case), in case of packages, it's pretty easy
>> to check some vital file for existence as I stated already. I use such
>> a method to detect availability of a package, and it never harmed me.
>> Moreover, I use it like follows:
>>
>> classes:
>> "ntpd_installed" expression => fileexists("/usr/sbin/ntpd");
>>
>> packages
>> !ntpd_installed::
>> "ntpd"
>> package_method => yum,
>> package_policy => "add";
>>
>> This approach saves me from wasting CPU and time for unnecessary
>> package manager invocation when a package is already installed.
>
> That's pretty unwieldy though, once the number of packages becomes large.
> Personally I avoided this problem completely by very rarely using cfengine's
> packages mechanism - I distribute files with cfengine containing lists of
> desired package states, and my own script checks that those packages are
> installed/removed as appropriate. It's not quite as flexible as cfengine's
> method -- which I do still use occasionally when I need the extra stuff --
> but:
>
> a) It invokes the package manager far fewer times (only once per package
> list file), and then only if the package list files or defined classes have
> changed since the last time the script was run.
> b) The resulting list file is much easier for my junior admins to make
> changes to than editing full cfengine promise files.
>
> The downside is the script is Debian/Ubuntu specific, although it would be
> pretty trivial to adapt it to cope with RPM-style distros as well/instead.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>
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