On May 6, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Francois Deppierraz wrote: > > Luke Kanies wrote: > >> Obviously this isn't quite right, but you get the idea -- you need to >> have per-resource events, so that notification and dependencies work >> correctly, but otherwise you want to combine everything. > > Such a feature would be awesome ! > > We are using Puppet to install Ubuntu workstations on which we are > installing about 200 packages. The initial puppet run takes > approximatively 20 minutes to finish. > > A single call to apt-get or aptitude would certainly shorten this > operation quite a bit.
These could actually be shortened quite a bit with existing infrastructure by adding prefetching support to apt/aptitude. That would cut out one call to apt-cache for every package. -- "They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me." -- Nathaniel Lee, on being consigned to a mental institution, circa 17th c. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
