Perhaps if you didn't declare the dependencies accurately, some orderings would work and some orderings would fail. Seems no different to a declarative build tool in that respect.
Julian. 2009/7/17 Burkholder, Peter <pburkhol...@aarp.org>: > > I just finished listening to the Configuration Management panel from > OSBridge (on blip.tv). > > Near the end of it, Adam Jacob states that Puppet's resource dependency > ordering is non-deterministic, > and that manifests that work fine 19 times will fail the 20th time. > > Is this true? I'm puzzled that what Luke considers one of Puppet's > strong suits is derided by > others as its Achille's heel. > > -Peter > > > -- > Peter Burkholder > AARP | Web Strategy & Operations | 601 E Street, NW | Washington, DC > 20049 > email: pburkhol...@aarp.org | aim: peterbtech | ph: 202-434-3530 | cell: > 202-344-7129 | > > > > -- Julian Simpson Software Build and Deployment http://www.build-doctor.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
