On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Thomas Bellman <bell...@nsc.liu.se> wrote:
> Trevor Vaughan wrote: > > Mainly sugar around the call with the ability to twiddle all of the >> useful rsync flags in a platform-agnostic manner where possible. >> >> That would be truly awesome. >> > > I have such a define in my module "nsc-puppet-utils" (available at > http://www.nsc.liu.se/~bellman/nsc-puppet-utils.git<http://www.nsc.liu.se/%7Ebellman/nsc-puppet-utils.git>). > You use it > like this: > > rsync_mirror { > epel-5-x86_64: > source => "rsync://mirrorhost/fedora-epel/5/x86_64/./", > target => "/pkg/epel-5.x86_64", > rsyncflags => ['--exclude', 'repoview', '--exclude', 'debug'], > creates => "/pkg/epel-5.x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml", > hour => 3, minute => 25; > } > > This does two things: when run the first time, it actually does > an rsync of a directory tree. And then it creates a cron job > for keeping the tree synchronized with the source. You use the > 'creates' parameter to indicate a file that you expect to exist > in the tree, so Puppet itself doesn't have to run rsync every > time. If you mirror a large tree that could take a long time, > even if no files actually need to be transferred (I use it to > keep a mirror of CentOS and EPEL on a cluster, so we can re-install > our nodes anytime without being dependant on external servers). > > Is this what you want? Any suggestions for improvements? > 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? > > /Bellman > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
