auto-softupdate

[Patrick Cornelissen]

Cedric BRINER wrote:

> let's say that this softupdate will happen every night. What happen If I'm working
> on a the configuration space, and that this configuration is not yet working well.
> 
> To avoid such situation, I was thinking to give a version to the configuration
> space, and to do a script on any client which will do a softupdate only if the
> version of the configuration space is higher than the last softupdate done.

We thought about this too. We're testing changes to the configuration on 
  one of the target computers, then we're applying the changes to the 
fai repository and run fai softupdate on another computer that is the 
same classes to test it.
softupdate runs somewhere around midnight. We're not working at that 
time, so there shouldn't be any unfinished changes in fai config.

A small problem is that someone applies changes in teh config and 
someone else triggers an softupdate at that point, but this doesn't 
happen often and we sit in one room, so there is a high chance of 
noticing this.

-- 
MfG,
  Patrick Cornelissen