Re: using cfrun to only take action on hosts in defined group

[Tim Nelson]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Steve Wray wrote:

> Eg, I already have a cfengine script to update debian packages, I want to 
> define a class of 'staging servers' and be able to run this existing cfengine 
> action against that group and no others.

	Just in case you care, Arpmats is designed to solve this problem 
among others.  http://arpmats.sourceforge.net/

        The problems you would face in doing this, though, are:
i)      It doesn't support deb packages yet (just RPM), although I've
        tried to make it easy to add more
ii)     It doesn't support apt for dependency resolution and repository
        management (although again, I've tried to make it easy to add
        more)
iii)    The stuff for setting up staging servers is still definately in
        beta (or maybe even alpha)

        So, you could do it that way, but it would require some coding :).

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