On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> "Gabriel - IP Guys" <gabr...@impactteachers.com> writes: > > > I'm still very new to puppet, and I've been away for the last few days, > so > > please forgive me if my answer is old. But if you want to ensure that > your > > repos are upto date, do what you would do on a normal box, and that is > run > > apt-get update fairly often - once a day at 20 past midnight maybe. For > > that, maybe setup a cron job via puppet? > > > > Then, all you have to do, is wait 24 hours after a system has come under > > your control, and you should have an up to date system. > > FWIW, we used to rely on this, and it got painfully old when our > requirements > changed and we needed an update applied sooner rather than later to our > internal software deployments. > > The same would be true of an emergency security patch from upstream, > though, > so I certainly feel happier having puppet ensure the resources it depends > on > are up to date. > Absolutely. While I've got apt people reading this thread... :) How do you think Puppet could best model pinning? I keep thinking I want to make it part of a repository type, but then wonder whether it's best expressed as a separate resource.... > > Daniel > -- > ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ dan...@rimspace.net ☎ +61 401 155 > 707 > ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > > -- > 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. > > -- nigel -- 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.
