On Feb 17, 4:19 pm, "R.I.Pienaar" <r...@devco.net> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "jimbob palmer" <jimbobpal...@gmail.com>
> > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:12:46 PM
> > Subject: [Puppet Users] Puppet unless behaviour with a dependency
>
> > Is this really expected behaviour? Should the second Exec succeed
> > even if the first never runs?
>
> > exec { "one":
> > command => "/bin/true",
> > unless => '/bin/false'
> > }
> > exec { "two":
> > command => "/bin/true",
> > require => Exec["one"],
> > }
>
> I think this ishttps://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5876
>
> i think this is a major failure of Puppet to honour what people expect
> and what the language suggests in the choice of meta param names etc
> but there's some debate in that ticketIt's causing me a real headache. I need to run an expensive command if a string is not present in a file. If the string is present, I abort. That expensive command finishes by writing the string to the file. If the expensive command runs I need to run a second command, which is also expensive to run. How can I do this? If I duplicate the unless the second command can never run since the string will be present in the file. -- 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.
