Brent, Thanks for the feedback.
It felt like a bit of a hack when I wrote it but it very much follows the Puppet mentality of idempotency. I'm just starting to fiddle with Augeas since 90% of my problems fall into the precise declaration arena. Trevor On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 17:16, Brent Chapman <br...@netomata.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Trevor Vaughan <peiriann...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> While this is kind of kludg-y, might you try building the multipart >> file with Puppet itself: >> >> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/Recipes/BuildingMultipartFiles >> >> It's useful for building files where you have chunked sections and, of >> course, you can use templates etc... where necessary. >> >> I have no idea what it does to performance though. >> >> Trevor > > This is a cool trick, but it's solving a fundamentally different problem > than using Augeas would. With this approach, you're saying "here's exactly > what should be in the file; I don't care what's there already, replace it > with this". In contrast, the Augeas approach is "I'm not sure what's in the > file already, but here is the list of changes that need to be made to the > file; make these changes, but leave the rest of the file (including > comments) alone." > I tend to favor the former approach, of specifying exactly what should be in > a given config file; it's the approach I take with our Netomata Config > Generator (NCG) tool (http://www.netomata.com/products/ncg). It's not the > right approach for all circumstances, though, and Augeas might be useful in > those cases. > > -Brent > -- > Brent Chapman <br...@netomata.com> > Founder and CEO // Netomata, Inc. // www.netomata.com > Making networks more reliable and flexible by automating network > configuration > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
