If you are looking at overlays specifically have you checked out RADMIND?
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/radmind/macosx.html
Note : The link above is more specific to the MacOSX release but
it is a good starting point
Hope that helps!
tomr wrote:
> Almost all of the config of someapp has remained unchanged
> in the latest major release.
Distributing config files really sounds more like a job for
sysutils/puppet than for rsync :) Teach facter to return the
version of someapp that's installed and you don't even have
to keep tra
>Since you say the number is small, I suspect that something simple like:
>
> rsync -hia /path/to/sync/common remotehost:
> rsync -hia --ignore-times /path/to/sync/groupN remotehost:
>
>will be close to optimal.
>
>Another option is to build an --exclude-from list for the files in the
>special g
In , on 03/31/16
at 03:40 PM, tomr said:
Hi,
>Then I'd run an rsync like:
>rsync -av --overlay /path/to/sync/groupN \
> /path/to/sync/common remotehost:
>Thinking in terms of a list of files to be transferred, I would like: -
>Anything present in common/ added to the file list; then
> On 31 Mar 2016, at 16:22, Marian Marinov wrote:
>
> On 03/31/2016 07:40 AM, tomr wrote:
>> I maintain a directory structure containing dirs and files that I regularly
>> push to ~50 hosts, which are divided into 3 groups that have slightly
>> different needs (minor mods in a couple of files)
On 03/31/2016 07:40 AM, tomr wrote:
> I maintain a directory structure containing dirs and files that I regularly
> push to ~50 hosts, which are divided into 3 groups that have slightly
> different needs (minor mods in a couple of files).
>
> So ideally I would have 4 directories:
> /path/to
