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| author | Tim Laszlo <tim.laszlo@gmail.com> | 2010-08-02 21:41:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Sol Jerome <sol.jerome@gmail.com> | 2010-08-04 16:59:36 -0500 |
| commit | 96714d720ce568aafac6ac45b35fe1341a8d38d5 (patch) | |
| tree | ebb1eae5b5ba046d10a37a427cc9b71ad32dceb8 /doc | |
| parent | f19fe77355e13b1478a5e8ab5e8152877f7a2c05 (diff) | |
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Packages: Allow soft relaods and use a checksum for cache file.
Use checksum for cache file.
Allow reloads of config.xml and sources without downloading everything.
Merged config.xml and source processing into a single function.
git-svn-id: https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/bcfg/trunk/bcfg2@5997 ce84e21b-d406-0410-9b95-82705330c041
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt | 39 |
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt index 75349b3a3..923dafefb 100644 --- a/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt +++ b/doc/server/plugins/generators/packages.txt @@ -211,6 +211,16 @@ Once line per file download needed. Packages/config.xml will be reloaded at this time, so any source specification changes (new or modified sources in this file) will be reflected by the server at this point. +Soft reload +----------- + +.. versionadded:: 1.1.0 + +A soft reload can be performed to reread the configuration file and download only missing sources.:: + + [0:3711] bcfg2-admin xcmd Packages.Reload + True + Availability ============ @@ -241,6 +251,35 @@ need to use :ref:`BoundEntries <boundentries>` like below <BoundPackage name="mem-agent" priority="1" version="auto" type="yum" verify="false"/> +Generating Client APT/Yum Configurations +======================================== + +.. versionadded:: 1.1.0 + +Client repository information can be generated automatically from software sources using +:doc:`./tgenshi/index` or :doc:`./tcheetah`. A list of source urls are exposed in the client's metadata as +metadata.Packages.sources. + +An example :doc:`./tgenshi/index` APT template:: + + # bcfg2 maintained apt + + {% for s in metadata.Packages.sources %}\ + deb ${s.url}${s.version} ${s.groups[0]} {% for comp in s.components %}$comp {% end %} + + {% end %}\ + +An example :doc:`./tgenshi/index` YUM template:: + + # bcfg2 maintained yum + + % for s in metadata.Packages.sources %}\ + [${s.groups[0]}_${s.component}] + name=${s.groups[0]}_${s.component} + baseurl=${s.url} + + {% end %}\ + Debugging unexpected behavior ============================= |