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Re: Prepare to be assimilated^Wanalysed; resistance is futile

To: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Prepare to be assimilated^Wanalysed; resistance is futile
From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 11:36:09 -0400
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Hi -

nathans wrote:
> [...]
> > Would you considering pushing a random snapshot of dev into fedora
> > rawhide, so people can experiment with it easier?  (We do this with
> > systemtap, semiautomagically pushing updates weekly.)
> 
> Maybe - I'm away all of next week so I'm a bit hesitant to push any
> possibly-half-baked stuff beyond the git tree dev branch.  Further
> testing this arvo has uncovered some other subtle problems too.

OTOH, the point of fedora *rawhide* is to help find other subtle
problems in pre-release software.

> ./Makepkgs makes this kind of full-package-install experimentation a
> trivial matter of course, if one were so inclined.  ;)

Sure.  The point would be to make it even easier.

> [...]
> So, we are talking about "should we use pmlogconf or cat-a-series-of-all-
> possible-configuration-files, with no knowledge of the remote host setup,
> and let pmlogger sort it out when it starts up" to manage our farm of
> pmlogger instances [...]

Not necessarily.  pmlogconf could still be run for each newly discovered
remote host; its output file could be in a separate per-host config file.

By the way, another (non-pmcpp, non-directory-searching) simple way to
mix hand-written and generated files would be to permit pmlogger to
have not just one -c CONFIG file option, but multiple.


- FChE

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