RE: Locking for temporary ad-hoc changes?

[David Masterson]

Don't think there is anything for you to worry about -- mostly my lack of
depth on CFEngine.

Mark Burgess wrote:
> I have scaned but I'm not sure that I understand this discussion. Can
> you spell out the conclusions for me?
> 
> M
> 
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:21 -0800, Wil Cooley wrote:
>> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 13:59 -0800, David Masterson wrote:
>> 
>>> The former -- but it won't work if you're doing checksum based
>>> copying.  I suppose you could simplify this by having update.conf
>>> define a class if a file exists and then only do copying if the
>>> class is not present. 
>> 
>> Yes, and I use checksum almost exclusively.  I could, of course, use
>> 'IfFileExists(foo.lock)' to define a class (or whatever the function
>> name is; I forget) and then only update if that class is not defined.
>> The problem is that I'd need to do such a thing for EVERY file, which
>> would not only be tedious to implement, it wouldn't be possible for
>> recursive directory copies.  Now that I think about it, however, it
>> might be doable to implement a host-wide lock with minimal changes
>> to my existing configuration. 
>> 
>>> The idea is to temporarily tell cfagent to not do an update from the
>>> master while you're making local modifications.
>> 
>> Right.  And my opinion, and what I am asking Mark to consider, is
>> that a simple tool and a few changes in the existing code to check
>> for and report the locks would be better than increasing the
>> complexity of current configurations. 
>> 
>>> As to the latter, that entails running cfservd locally and have the
>>> master copy changed files back.  It could then alert you to the
>>> changes and allow you to check them into your repository.
>> 
>> Yeah, I know it can be done like that, but my wish is for something
>> bigger. 
>> 
>> Wil
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