Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet + APT, I am lost...

Nigel Kersten
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:03:43 -0000

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Silviu Paragina <silviu@paragina.ro>
wrote:

> As it was said earlier if you have a ensure => latest you should
probably
> have (also) a cron job for updates.

I think it''s much more difficult to manage multiple schedules, and to
deal with inconsistencies when people manually run Puppet at times
that aren''t in sync with your cron job than it is for Puppet to simply
ensure the appropriate commands are run before your packages are
installed.