On Feb 17, 4:41 pm, jimbob palmer <jimbobpal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 4:19 pm, "R.I.Pienaar" <r...@devco.net> wrote:
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> > ----- 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
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> > > Is this really expected behaviour? Should the second Exec succeed
> > > even if the first never runs?
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> > > exec { "one":
> > > command => "/bin/true",
> > > unless => '/bin/false'
> > > }
> > > exec { "two":
> > > command => "/bin/true",
> > > require => Exec["one"],
> > > }
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> > I think this ishttps://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5876
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> > 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 ticket
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> It's causing me a real headache.
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> 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.
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> If the expensive command runs I need to run a second command, which is
> also expensive to run.
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> 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.
This also doesn't work :(
command => "/bin/true; /bin/second_command"
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