[Yum-devel] New plugin: service-restart

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 15:01 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 13:03 -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> > Okay, so I wrote it after all.
> > 
> > This was tested on RHEL4 (yum-2.4.3) and FC6 (yum-3.0.3). It was found working.
> > 
> > Please let me know what you think.
> 
> Let me ask a stupid question -- why go this route as opposed to using
> something like cfengine or puppet to handle kicking off your updates and
> then any service changes that need to occur?  
> 
> Because once we start going down this path, I can see a proliferation of
> similar sorts of plugins to finish fleshing out what you need for a
> cfengine or the like
> 

easy:
1. cfengine requires assloads of infrastructure and pain and it's syntax
kills kittens
2. puppet requires ruby on your systems  and infrastructure and pain

icon's plugin doesn't. It just requires a file.

-sv