Oh, BOY I love gmane.
So, I've been working on a new cfengine installation in our unit, and
so I subscribed to the gmane cfengine group, and have semi-fresh
context about a half dozen discussions over the last 2-3 years about
some repository management tactics.
So here's one of them: It's a treatment of "How do I point (testing
box X) at a test repository without making that test repository
fundamentally different from the main one?".
If your test repository has an update.conf which is different from the
production one, you've got a sync problem. I've solved this by
permitting a host to select an alternate policyhost.
In this way, the only things you need to change in the test repository
are the items under test; you do not need to also twiddle and
change-control update.conf, and you no longer have a risk of
accidentally committing a test update.conf to a production box.
control: actionsequence = ( copy ) # Keep this simple and constant
local_override = (
ReadArray(/var/cfengine/etc/local_override,textkey,",","#",1024) )
classes:
policyhost_overridden = ( isDefined(local_override[policyhost]) )
control:
policyhost_overridden::
policyhost = ( $(local_override[policyhost]) )
!policyhost_overridden::
policyhost = ( "whatever.production.policyhost" )
- Allen S. Rout
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