CFEngine Help: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Variable convergence mystery

2012-07-31 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Variable convergence mystery Author: neilhwatson Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26796,26824#msg-26824 Mark Burgess Wrote: --- > The algorithm is simple: every attempt

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Variable convergence mystery

2012-07-31 Thread Mark Burgess
Knowing the algorithm is not going to help anyone to understand it as there are too many "variable issues". The algorithm is simple: every attempt is made to converge variables based on knowledge of defined classes, whenever they are encountered in a scheduled promise, going around up to three

Re: CFEngine Help: Re: Variable convergence mystery

2012-07-31 Thread Diego Zamboni
Hi Neil, > I've learned something new today. Now I had a question. If agent re-evaluates > vars and classes more than in the normal ordering of other promise types then > what is the algorithm? How can we mortals similate in our minds what the > agent will do? I honestly don't know the details