I was looking at this option last nigh and perhaps I'm just dense, but I'm not sure how it will benefit me. In theory, I know which version I have in production/testing/dev by which subversion/git tag I have checked out on the master. Am I missing the point? Can someone provide an example when this would be useful?
On Oct 10, 2009, at 2:29 AM, James Turnbull <ja...@lovedthanlost.net> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just thought I'd call the lists attention to a feature that we > missed documenting for the 0.25.0 release. > > A new configuration option, config_version, is now available: > > config_version = /usr/local/bin/return_version > > The option allows you to specify a command that returns a version > for the configuration that is being applied to your hosts. The > command should return a string, such as a version number or name. > > Puppet then runs this command at compile time. Each resource is > marked with the value returned from this command. This value is also > added to the log instance, serialised and sent along with any report > generated. This allows you to parse your report output and ascertain > which configuration version was used to generate the resource. > > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/ReleaseNotes#configuration-versioning > > Regards > > James Turnbull > > - -- > Author of: > * Pro Linux Systems Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) > * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) > * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) > * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEVAwUBStA3tSFa/lDkFHAyAQK2Rwf/ZZ36y+2A3p3Y+fkMPTGHqSF/OxK8rmfr > gQ9KAgSxdLHQt4+VmE4LKM1HMOmRoIJo7jthFDdp0MRveOxDycJEdKkhSNOHyAsF > EhlgONMo4T36cBPb1zJSi6yhFkdOSxkn8Q623zRR/P3crUfWMf/xNMzabmCB2zy0 > LKRrW6CzqwPtlSr3ye9Ysiqqpf+rZuRjNgUliqVTfSuBD2PETTGKpHXri2DZ39lB > /+Qe0fyc+GhN3plobEUpHaadpf9YOtnIpL97RthMDvyHCrQKD3eRHey+C3o0EfZg > kAcPJb+Y9qJ/ZLK86nhte+5BLwJEwJcvJea2NXtvBqeaDvHqHMveVQ== > =vSOU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
