Don't think there is anything for you to worry about -- mostly my lack of depth on CFEngine.
Mark Burgess wrote: > I have scaned but I'm not sure that I understand this discussion. Can > you spell out the conclusions for me? > > M > > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:21 -0800, Wil Cooley wrote: >> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:59 -0800, David Masterson wrote: >> >>> The former -- but it won't work if you're doing checksum based >>> copying. I suppose you could simplify this by having update.conf >>> define a class if a file exists and then only do copying if the >>> class is not present. >> >> Yes, and I use checksum almost exclusively. I could, of course, use >> 'IfFileExists(foo.lock)' to define a class (or whatever the function >> name is; I forget) and then only update if that class is not defined. >> The problem is that I'd need to do such a thing for EVERY file, which >> would not only be tedious to implement, it wouldn't be possible for >> recursive directory copies. Now that I think about it, however, it >> might be doable to implement a host-wide lock with minimal changes >> to my existing configuration. >> >>> The idea is to temporarily tell cfagent to not do an update from the >>> master while you're making local modifications. >> >> Right. And my opinion, and what I am asking Mark to consider, is >> that a simple tool and a few changes in the existing code to check >> for and report the locks would be better than increasing the >> complexity of current configurations. >> >>> As to the latter, that entails running cfservd locally and have the >>> master copy changed files back. It could then alert you to the >>> changes and allow you to check them into your repository. >> >> Yeah, I know it can be done like that, but my wish is for something >> bigger. >> >> Wil >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-cfengine mailing list >> Help-cfengine@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- David Masterson VMware, Inc. Palo Alto, CA _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
