Re: Taxing cfengine a bit

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Paul Paradise wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 06:24:31PM -0400, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> > The thing I find interesting about this is that just last month a
> > sysadmin from Qualcomm was asking me some basic questions about
> > cfengine.  He said it's not used there.  Maybe you're in different
> > depts.
>
> That was probably me, if it was on this mailing list. :-)

It was someone else, in person at USENIX.  But if this is that new a
project then I guess there's not a conflict in stories.  It just seemed
that anyone with a config file that big would probably have been at it
for far longer.

> No, actually we're working together, in the same department, on this
> project. For those interested we're basically marrying the apt/dpkg
> core with cfengine to create heirarchical class dependencies. We've
> run into a number of architectural issues with scaling cfengine to the
> size we need (between 2000-13000 machines), but so far it looks very
> promising.
>
> There's a good chance you'll be seeing featurerequests/patches/bugfixes
> from Qualcomm sometime in the next 6 months as this progresses....

Cool.

-Mitch