Re: make 'proxy-hosts' into a list?

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Will Partain wrote:

> But how about another keep-the-show-on-the-road-thing?
> Instead of having just one proxy-host per proto-host (see
> package/ALL.xml for any site), e.g.
>
>    <proxy-hosts><table>
>      <entry name="ALL">slicker</entry>
>      <entry name="ia32-linux-rh7.1">gorregan</entry>
>      <entry name="sparcv9-solaris2.6">slinger</entry>
>    </table></proxy-hosts>
>
> we instead make the entries be lists, and the proxying gig
> will check them in order until it finds a non-down one? e.g
>
>    <proxy-hosts><table>
>      <entry name="ALL"><list>
> 	<item>slicker</item>
>      </list></entry>
>      ... etc ...
>    </table></proxy-hosts>

I like this idea, but it's use *could* lead to a wee problem...if for
instance "install-bits" gets run on host "bar", and then a week later,
"create-golden-copy" runs on host "foo", things will break (because there
is an assumption that these two methods run on the same host).

Matt.