Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-11-01 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18980#msg-18980 mark Wrote: --- > If you want a diagnosis, I suggest you submit your > complete code example to the

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18975#msg-18975 I find this thread very interesting. Some of Mark's statements highlight the need to balance CF policy between simple and long to the shorter m

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18973#msg-18973 If you want a diagnosis, I suggest you submit your complete code example to the list and say what OS you are running on, in case that matters. I suspec

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18972#msg-18972 Strace still lists the execution of 16 processes during one cf-agent run. cf-promises is to blame for half of them I guess but unfortunately I haven't

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18971#msg-18971 Good luck with your test. Try upgrading your version. 3.1.0 is now finalized, and will be released officially on the 7th Nov. I didn't see the odd beha

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18970#msg-18970 Yeah Joke is a common nickname for Johann turned into an actual first name in my case. As guessed right I use the execresult() function to build a lis

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18969#msg-18969 Joke (short for Johan.*?), my claim is that to be scalable (see below), you should keep to "best practices". Your configuration example is not really

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18968#msg-18968 I don't want to change my user name because it's my actual first name. I would write it camelcase and it much less funny or meaningful in german anyway

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18967#msg-18967 This is almost how Nova works in default bootstrap. I was also thinking this morning that we could avoid running cf-promises every time - just when inp

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-29 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18966#msg-18966 Actually, this discussion pointed me out to thinking about my view of an ideal convergency manager workflow. That's how I see it: 1. Promise

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18965#msg-18965 You are right, and I apologize. See my response for further explanation. ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Hel

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18964#msg-18964 Gentlemen, yes, this is partly my sense of ironic humour at work. It seemed easier than getting into a discussion about it, but I should have known be

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: zzamboni Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18963#msg-18963 mark Wrote: > Fine, you know best! Mark, with all due respect, I don't think responses like this help the cfengine "cause" or make for a user-frie

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18958#msg-18958 mark Wrote: --- > Welcome to the wonderful world of functional > programming and converge

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18957#msg-18957 Fine, you know best! ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18956#msg-18956 It doesn't have anything to do with functional programming. Typically functional programming would use lazy evaluation and evaluate the variable just

Cfengine Help: Re: evaluation of variables

2010-10-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: evaluation of variables Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18954,18955#msg-18955 Welcome to the wonderful world of functional programming and convergence. This is not a bug. ___ Help-cfen