On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Ryan Steele wrote:
>
> On Oct 27, 12:35 pm, Luke Kanies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The entire set of manifests is evaluated on the server, producing a
>> catalog which is evaluated on the client.
>
> Ok, so the puppetmaster creates a static catalog (devoid of variables
> and control structures) for any resources applicable to the given
> client so it can apply them. Which in the case of the svn_repo
> example in the documentation on definitions, means that by the time
> the client gets the catalog, it just sees an 'exec' that either does
> or doesn't have the require attribute.
Exactly.
>
>> Thus, you never have to worry about ordering between language
>> constructs like 'if' and catalog resources, because the language
>> constructs are *always* evaluated before any resources are
>> evaluated.
>
> That answers part of my question about whether the "non-
> resource" (obviously more appropriately titled "language") bits of the
> manifests are evaluated before the resources. But I'm not sure it
> answered the the other question regarding the order of evaluation of
> the language constructs performed on the puppetmaster. So in the case
> of:
>
> if $foo { $baz = "quux" }
> $foo = "bar"
>
> ...does the puppetmaster care in which order these types of language
> constructs exist in the given resource? Or does it handle the
> assignments before any control structures are evaluated?
Older versions of Puppet (0.23.x, I think) attempted to pick an
appropriate order for the different kinds of statements, but
currently, all of the statements are just evaluated in file order.
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