RFC: dynamic generation of mock config from template?

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:52:00 +0000
John Florian <john.florian at dart.biz> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > Subject: Re: RFC: dynamic generation of mock config from template?
> > 
> > I have to say that I have desperately wanted a way to make every
> > mock config use my local mirror instead of having to edit every
> > file.  Having the repo definitions.in some generic place would make
> > things much simpler.
> > 
> > Which I know is the exact opposite of what Vit was suggesting, but
> > I figure I'd toss in my use case.
> 
> I'm in the same boat, but have no pain here at all.  I have puppet
> spew out my mock configs from a template. I merely create a new
> stanza that has the few details that differ for each release and
> those are obvious simply by looking at the ones I've already
> created.  If puppet is too heavy, you could do the same with ansible
> instead (or a masterless puppet for that matter).  Have you
> considered something along these lines?

Even simpler, I generate all of mine from a simple shell script and an
m4 template.

Paul.