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 > >
If you use a bit of common sense when writing your manifests and set order the same way you would when installing this on the command line it will work 20 out of 20 times. You just set eg the require parameter or before parameter, easy and straight forward. It's not that different from programming either. Calling a function that does not yet exist can easily throw an error.. It's better to have a system letting you set the order explicitly when needed than having a system trying to figure out this in some automagically way and wind up being a pain to use. Regards --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
