'undo' capability, was: Re: Cfengine capability

2006-04-03 Thread Edward F. Brown
On Mon, April 3, 2006 10:38 am, Brendan Strejcek said: > > http://madstop.com/articles/tag/transactions > > http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/random/transactions1105 Not sure if your 'offtopic' tags referred to the whole question of 'undo' capability in other tools (which it was, offtopi

Re: Cfengine capability

2006-04-03 Thread Brendan Strejcek
Atom Powers wrote: > Edward F. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have any other tools addressed 'undo'? > > I think I head that puppet is working on this, but frankly I haven't > even looked at it yet. http://madstop.com/articles/tag/transactions http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/r

Re: Cfengine capability

2006-04-03 Thread Brendan Strejcek
Mark Burgess wrote: > Undo is rather ambiguous unless you snapshot the entire system (as Ed > alluded to), since there can be unseen consequences of changes. And even then, the problem can't be solved generally because the state of the network is important as well. However, I think there is plen