[sf-perl] one install path, multiple repository paths

Quinn Weaver quinn at fairpath.com
Wed Apr 30 11:35:06 PDT 2008


Hi, David et al.,

My take on this is that you should step back from the problem, try to
make some simplifying assumptions, and take a different tack.

For instance, could you abstract out all (or most of) the differences in
config files into environment variables?  For /etc/rc.d/*
scripts, could you make a single file that behaves differently based on
the setting of two variable called MY_ENVIRONMENT and MY_ROLE?

If you deploy the same config file to every machine, then it becomes
harder to mess things up.  You don't have to keep track of what goes where.
You can edit a single file to see how things work in every environment
(or change how they work).  You have fewer files and directories cluttering
your repository.

This is just one way to go; TMTOWTDI.  But if you're concerned that things
are too complicated already, then simplifying might work well.

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