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

Nigel Kersten
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:06:14 -0000

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Martijn Grendelman
<martijn@grendelman.net> wrote:

> But for this to work, the Puppet run needs to run aptitude update to
> pick up the new package name. Running the update periodically
isn''t
> enough, but running an update on every catalog run is just overkill.


I understand your concern here, but have you done the timing tests?

How long are your average puppet runs and how much time does an
"apt-get update" take?

I just wonder if you''re prematurely optimizing your runs.