>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  >> 
  Luke> what I am currently looking for is a way to keep the configs
  Luke> in cvs or similar, then automatically deply first to test,
  Luke> then to production.
  >> 
  >> We actually have a paper in at LISA this year about using this
  >> sort of technique with bcfg2. There are a bunch of corner cases
  >> that makes this a little tricky, but there are a ton of nifty
  >> things that you can do (including configuration transactions and
  >> workflows) if you do it right.

  Paul> We have been doing this for a while. Recently, it has been
  Paul> formalised more & we now have several different flavours of
  Paul> machines with different levels of "stability". Production
  Paul> machines get a weekly update which has been in test on
  Paul> "development" machines for the previous week.

Out of curiosity, does the LCFG server know anything about the
revision control system, or is the change management functionality
handled entirely externally?
 -nld
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