On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:09:07PM +0100, Patrick Debois wrote: > > You didn't way you wanted arbitrary combinations, just combinations up > > to an arbitrary date, which is simpler to manage. You don't even need > > genuine multiple mirrors; you could use dirvish or rdiff-backup to > > create a series of apparent snapshots. > > > > > Nice idea to use dirvish: that would indeed allow me to avoid > duplication of the repository and if i understand it right, > i can have different enviroments use different snapshots at the same > time. f.i. dev and test on repository X and pre-prod on version Y
That's right. Dirvish is great for that kind of thing. It's ungreat as an actual backup tool, of course, because everything has to be on a single filesystem and there's only one copy of each file, but that's an endless argument I have in other places and you don't want to hear about that. > > > > Debian manages that problem with it's release structure, but you > > probably don't want to hear that. > > > > > Would it make sense to use the Build Date or the Signature date for this? Dunno. I just ran out of smarts. -- Bruce If the universe were simple enough to be understood, we would be too simple to understand it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
