Doh! Strong left-hook from Tim. Will Jonathan come back for more?
M Tim Cutts wrote: > > On 26 Jan 2010, at 2:25 pm, Mark Burgess wrote: > >> >> This seems reasonable. I am spoiled using zypper which does this >> automatically. > > It's arguable that apt's separation of the two functions is sensible. I > have more than 2000 machines; and have already once been blacklisted by > one apt repository site for hammering their repository - this despite > the fact that I was going through a web proxy, but this site didn't like > even a couple of dozen checks a day from the web proxy! > > By having the functionality separate, you can have the update much less > frequent than you actually check whether the machine's packages are up > to date. That way, I limit the machines to getting update package lists > to only once a day, by using ifelapsed, but they can still use apt any > number of other times in the day without bothering the upstream sites > unnecessarily. > > On our SLES10 machines I have the reverse problem, that zypper *always* > seems to connect to the upstream source, even to do things which don't > really need it. This makes package installations through zypper rather > slow. Maybe there's a way to tell it not to bother? > > Tim > > -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
