Forum: CFEngine Help
Subject: package lists being updated after every run?
Author: simonblake
Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24576,24576#msg-24576
Hi all
Using body package_method apt from the stdlib, my (possibly erroneous)
understanding is that it should fetch the lists of ubuntu/debian packages no
more than once every 4 hours. Looking at the access logs on my squid cache,
every time cf-agent runs (8-12 times an hour) I see about requests for Release
and Package files, which I assume means that the package caches are being
updated every time cf-agent runs.
Am I missing something here? I could put an if_elapsed delay into every
package installation I do, but I'm not sure that's the correct solution.
My stdlib is this version:
# Subversion : $Rev: 110 $
# For Cfengine Core: 3.1.0
A typical call in a bundle would be:
vars:
(debian|ubuntu)::
"match_package" slist => { "cron", "gnupg",
"less", "netcat-traditional",
"rsync", "rsyslog", "ssh", "sudo",
"telnet", "wget",
};
packages:
"$(match_package)"
package_policy => "add",
package_method => apt;
_______________________________________________
Help-cfengine mailing list
Help-cfengine@cfengine.org
https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
