Thanks a lot John! yes you got my point. I think I will better implement version control of my manifests, as you suggest. This will help for sure, but what I was wondering, was to revert node configurations.
cheers On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 6:59:58 PM UTC+2, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 10:01:42 AM UTC-5, MrTeleBird wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> everytime I run on a puppet host: >> #puppet agent --test >> >> I see this commet: >> info: Applying configuration version '000001' >> >> then lets say I deploy a new package from my local repository, from >> which I would get a different configuration version. >> >> #puppet agent --test >> info: Applying configuration version '000002' >> >> ...question: is there a way to deploy back an older version, in this >> case '000001'? and how? >> > > Not as far as I know, and anyway, it wouldn't have the result you are > probably thinking of. In particular, the message might be more precisely > worded "applying *catalog* version <foo>". Applying an older catalog > would not reliably revert the client to the configuration originally > produced by that catalog -- that is, it would not revert changes applied in > later catalogs. It cannot do so because earlier catalogs cannot contain > full information about the content of later catalogs. > > What you can and should do is store all your manifests in a > version-control system such as git or subversion. That will give you, > among other things, the ability to revert your manifests to reflect some > earlier point in time. Given identical node facts, the master will then > compile and serve catalogs identical to those previously compiled from > those manifests. (But that still won't revert *node configurations* the > way I suspect you were hoping.) > > > John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/o7-K5WCsNAYJ. 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.
