On 10 July 2013 18:57, Ashley Penney <ashley.pen...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Hi guys, > > As I mentioned in a previous email I've refactored ntp and released a > 1.0.0 release candidate. There's one outstanding "flaw" remaining that's > bothering me and I wanted to solicit opinions on the list. We currently > maintain a template per distribution that is close to the stock > distribution provided ntp configuration. This leads to massive sprawl and > means adding a distribution means yet another template. > I can see your point of view regarding sprawl/extending to additional distributions. However, see below. > Would users of the ntp module mind if we unified this all into a single > template? Obviously we'd have to pick one as the best "base" template and > move over to using it and deal with the fact that your ntp configuration > would significantly change. > As a sysadmin, that significant change is more important. I like to keep services configured as the distribution does so out of the box, unless there's a specific reason not to. As such, I'd like the diffs between the RPM-provided config file and the puppet-provided template to be as small as possible so that when an agent picks the change up, it's obvious what/why the change has been made. Additionally, this helps when an RPM upgrade occurs and a .rpmsave file is generated; diffing a close-to-stock config file again will be much easier to audit for potential changes to pick up. With all that said, if the consensus is to provide a single template, it's easily overridable using the config_template parameter, so I can just drop the stock RHEL-provided file in there myself. Regards, Matt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
