Re: [Puppet-dev] throw an error/warning when a variable is used when undefined

2010-09-19 Thread Luke Kanies
On Sep 20, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Robin Bowes wrote: > On 19/09/10 19:59, Peter Meier wrote: >>> Would it be possible to make puppet throw an error when this happens? >> >> I don't think this is a good idea. I'm using this a lot to tweak what >> parts of manifests are applied. > > That doesn't mean i

Re: [Puppet-dev] throw an error/warning when a variable is used when undefined

2010-09-19 Thread Robin Bowes
On 19/09/10 19:59, Peter Meier wrote: >> Would it be possible to make puppet throw an error when this happens? > > I don't think this is a good idea. I'm using this a lot to tweak what > parts of manifests are applied. That doesn't mean it's a good thing! :) I'd really like to be able to sanity

Re: [Puppet-dev] Proposal for feature request #4067 Automatic dependency resolution for package managers.

2010-09-19 Thread Luke Kanies
On Sep 18, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Markus Roberts wrote: >>> I thought it was likely to be a ticket, but searching redmine didn't >>> turn up anything. >>> >> >> My memory is: >> >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2198 > > If you think something is a ticket, your options (in order of > decreas

Re: [Puppet-dev] throw an error/warning when a variable is used when undefined

2010-09-19 Thread Peter Meier
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[Puppet-dev] throw an error/warning when a variable is used when undefined

2010-09-19 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi, I seem to remember having this conversation before, but I have lost count of the number of times I've been bitten when I've either forgotten to initialise a variable before using it a manifest, or I've made a small typo in a variable name resulting in the same thing. Would it be possible to m