Hi Steven, Do you mind sharing how you manage this with us here or in some sort of a blog post?
Martin 2011/5/6 Steven Acres <ad...@swatteksystems.com> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Felix Frank < > felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> On 04/23/2011 04:01 AM, Steven Acres wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:34 PM, trey85stang <trey85st...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:trey85st...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> > >> > Is there a way to override a schedule for a package if the package >> is >> > not installed? >> > >> > class packages { >> > schedule { installs: >> > range => "2-4", >> > period => daily, >> > repeat => 1, >> > } >> > package { openssh: >> > ensure => latest, >> > schedule => installs, >> > } >> > } >> > >> > I dont want to check if openssh is the latest package everytime >> puppet >> > runs; but I do want it installed if it is not already installed >> > regardless of the schedule. >> > >> > Anyway to do this? >> > >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > Sure, there are many ways to achieve this. You would be better off >> > defining which packages should be present on which nodes in another >> > class. Then use an include in the node(s) definition (or whatever method >> > you have defined for your architecture structure). >> > >> > BTW, if you're using yum and you would like to keep pkgs. updated, you >> > may want to look into yum-cron. >> >> Hi, >> >> I don't agree. Telling puppet to "install at all times but update only >> on a specific schedule" is not trivial if at all possible. >> >> Doing the upgrades outside the package provider may indeed be a sensible >> workaround. >> >> Cheers, >> Felix >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> Hi all, > > Easy as could be .. simple conditionals and cron, at .... if we're in the > 'old' days .. but since we now have the 'magic' of pkg. managers ... we > manage this effortlessly now. Not only does this free time to catch up on > BOFH ... it also ties into DR, auditing and compliance (i.e. PCI-DSS) which > need to be included and documented in our architectural process/design. The > most time is and should be spent on that design and the rest is primarily > fine-tuning. > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Steven > ----------------------- > Steven Acres > UNIX/Linux System Administrator > > -- > 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. > -- Met vriendelijke groet, Martin Willemsma -- 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.
