I disagree with some of your points:
1 - bandwidth would be the same or less than a cron'd prepare and would be more "on demand" if run inline at install time. Remember though, this would require a "check for update" type of flag (not high in bandwidth), so if any updates were to be pulled, it would happen only on the first run and all subsequent runs would pull from the already updated install share.
2 - install times are already unpredictable with soooo many reboots instead of patching install source. So true, if an update is d/l'd, that would take longer.
3 - permissions? - are we not already doin the unattended install from an admin account? - sure, one account would need right access to the share (no problem for me)
4 - refer back to 1 (not that I dont mind croning things) Im just thinking of what I would call "inline" automation, vs automating 10 things in 10 different places.
-sp out
Steffen Kaiser wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Steven Piercy wrote:
though, since the rest of unattended is running perl, is there a way to let todo.pl pickup and run prepare with a "check for update, then get it" sort of flag. So when I run unattended for the first time, it would automatically run prepare and dl anything needed. (ideally, the process would check each time
About the "fetch packages during install time":
+ Maximum bandwidth at install time.
+ Unpredictable install time.
+ The machine to be installed must have write permission to the server or each installed machine is pulling the stuff itself -- you will need some large and good www caching server.
+ you can trigger "prepare" via cron job every night.
Bye,
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