The bug has been fixed
On 12/18/2010 06:22 PM, Jesse Becker wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:00:23AM -0500, Mark Burgess wrote:
>>
>> Jesse and Seva,
>>
>> thank you for pointing out this problem. It was a simple typo (actually
>> failure to substitute some old code for new) that resulted in this
>> deficiency. Of course this should work. Latest SVN fixes this bug.
>>
>> BTW - note that the classes alpha,beta etc are somewhat redundant in
>> your example, since the real selection is made by $sys.uqhost
>
> Yeah, I see the redundancy now. This example came from a question from
> a co-worker. It was something I cooked up on short notice, and actually
> went through a few iterations, trying different ideas where those classes
> made more sense.
>
> Thanks for the note about the bug. I forgot to mention that I'm using
> 3.0.5p1. Should I file a report?
>
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 12/18/2010 12:37 AM, Jesse Becker wrote:
>>> So, the snipped below does not work, but I wish that it did. It also
>>> isn't limited to package promises either, I can think of cases for file
>>> and command promises as well.
>>>
>>> At a high level, I am trying to define per-host lists, then iterate over
>>> those lists, but only on the appropriate host.
>>>
>>> <-----snip----->
>>>
>>> bundle agent testing {
>>>
>>> vars:
>>> any:: 'common' slist => { 'foo', 'quux', 'fubar' };
>>> alpha:: 'pkgs[alpha]' slist => { 'foo', 'bar', 'baz' };
>>> beta:: 'pkgs[beta]' slist => { @{common}, 'yipyip' };
>>> delta:: 'pkgs[delta]' slist => { 'yipyip' };
>>>
>>> packages:
>>>
>>> # only "NY" is needed, since the others are squished into this in
>>> # yum.cf
>>> centos.!NY::
>>> "${pkgs[${sys.uqhost}]}"
>>> handle => "per_host_packages_for_${sys.uqhost}",
>>> package_policy => 'add',
>>> package_method => yum,
>>> ifvarclass => isvariable("pkgs[${sys.uqhost}]"),
>>> package_architectures => { 'x86_64' };
>>> }
>>>
>>> <-----snip----->
>>>
>>>
>>> What happens is that "${pkgs[${sys.uqhost}]}" is evaluated once, with
>>> only "${sys.uqhost}" getting processed, leaving the string as a literal
>>> "${pkgs[alpha]}" ). This will, of course, fail when passed to the
>>> actual promise in question.
>>>
>>> I do have a workaround, but it's inelegant. Bascially, flatten the
>>> array into multiple slists, and have a separate promise for each one,
>>> based on the hostnames.
>>>
>>> So my question: Is there a concise way to do something like what I've
>>> posted above?
>>>
>>>
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