On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Paul Lathrop <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Thomas Bellman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dan Bode wrote: > > > >> I would prefer if puppet ran the sync. It would be nice to receive > puppet > >> events for any changes made via rsync (essentially reports of which > files > >> change, this would require that it is implemented in ruby). > >> > >> I can see from reading the man page that there is a --dryrun call that > >> could be used to determine rather rsync should be run or not. Is this > >> reasonable to run this to determine if Puppet should run? or is that too > >> slow? > > > > Problem is, once you get file trees that have several tens of thousands > > of files in them, just traversing the tree to see which files are there > > and ought to be transfered can take a while. When the target tree is > > already up to date, rsync --dry-run doesn't go any faster than without > > --dry-run. > > > > The time taken doesn't matter much when Puppet is doing its automatic, > > unattended runs, but when you have made a change to your manifests and > > want to make a manual test run from an interactive shell, you don't want > > to wait an extra ten or fifty seconds just to see that you misspelled a > > package name... > > True, but this is one place where --tags really shines. Our manifest > have reached the level of complexity where we *need* to use --tags for > iterative debugging. > So I rarely use tags for iterative debugging, simply because I dislike the behavior when Resource A is tagged "foo" and requires Resource B which is not tagged "foo" I'd use them a lot more if we could have an optional flag for automatically pulling in requires that aren't tagged with the specified tag. I guess I should feature request that. Anyhow, for iterative debugging I instead have development servers set up that allow easy patching of a pending changelist into their config, and this can include switching off large chunks of the config. > > --Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<puppet-users%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" 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-users?hl=en.
