Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Execution order (was: classes not working in vars?)

2012-03-29 Thread Oace, Tod R
sauer wrote: > I've been meaning to extend that approach and try making a parametrized > bundle which takes the varaible as input (say, "bundle agent > overrideable(varname)"), but I've been too busy to figure out how CFEngine > handles variable namespacing when I call the same bundle name seve

CFEngine Help: Re: Execution order (was: classes not working in vars?)

2012-03-26 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Execution order (was: classes not working in vars?) Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,25293,25399#msg-25399 Oace, Tod R Wrote: --- > On Mar 16, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Nick Ander

Re: Execution order

2012-03-26 Thread Oace, Tod R
. Any new functions need to be carefully tested, and the execution order idea needs more thought as it could cause unexpected behavior with existing CFEngine policies not written in the internal actionsequence order. -Tod > CTO and Founder > CFEngine > > http://www.cfengine.

Re: Execution order

2012-03-24 Thread Mark Burgess
Todd, thanks for writing, your ideas are certainly clear, and I will give them some serious thought. The class/variable issue is more complex than it seems, and the ordering might not always help convergence of classes and variables (something of a chicken/egg problem). I will think about it t

Execution order (was: classes not working in vars?)

2012-03-23 Thread Oace, Tod R
On Mar 16, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Nick Anderson wrote: > Yep, when I have to do some strict ordering I will also set a negative > like "not_has_shortname" right after so that I can tell if something has > really not been done yet. Usually I don't need that kind of strict > ordering though. We're doin