+1 for any improvement in this area, until now we ended up with creating our own dummy packages that just include dependencies to many other packages...
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Luke Kanies <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 6, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Francois Deppierraz wrote: > > > > > Luke Kanies wrote: > > > >> Obviously this isn't quite right, but you get the idea -- you need to > >> have per-resource events, so that notification and dependencies work > >> correctly, but otherwise you want to combine everything. > > > > Such a feature would be awesome ! > > > > We are using Puppet to install Ubuntu workstations on which we are > > installing about 200 packages. The initial puppet run takes > > approximatively 20 minutes to finish. > > > > A single call to apt-get or aptitude would certainly shorten this > > operation quite a bit. > > > These could actually be shortened quite a bit with existing > infrastructure by adding prefetching support to apt/aptitude. That > would cut out one call to apt-cache for every package. > > -- > "They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they > outvoted me." -- Nathaniel Lee, on being consigned to a mental > institution, circa 17th c. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
