Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 13:28, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
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Again, I don't think you understand what delta'ing systems like CVS does compared to just a "HTTP accessable" repository trees. A world of difference!
I've never said I wanted deltas. I've said I wanted yum to not consider additions to a repository past a certain timestamp so it will make the same update decision it did a week or so ago even if the repostitory has additions.
Ok, you don't want to store deltas, you want to store multiple *copies*. That's even worse!
You said the alternative was easy. This question was just to find out what you mean by "easy". Put a price tag on what you mean when you say easy.
How much would it cost for you to do it your easy way for me - to have perhaps a dozen repository states saved and 10 clients configured to use each of them?
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Well, let's see, you want to have everyone in the world except you to have to maintain a dozen repository "states" (rather ill-defined word) so you can have the luxury of not doing so yourself. And, never having maintained one (let alone a dozen) repository "states" (whatever they are), you presume that it is easy.
Here's what I don't get about this thread: We have a fellow who has never done configuration management saying "All you have to do is..." when experts still don't have a complete solution to configuration management which works in all circumstances. And when people who *have* done configuration management try to point out that the task he wants performed is more complex than he imagines, he argues back.
Everything always looks simple from the outside, I guess.
Mike