On Friday, June 14, 2013 9:14:07 AM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote:
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> Nevertheless, if it is not feasible for you to determine up front all the
> packages your apps may be using or may want to use, then you can get by
> with a smaller list, consisting of just the union of those packages
> currentl
On Friday, June 14, 2013 2:01:50 AM UTC-5, Tom Lanyon wrote:
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> Hi John
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> On 14/06/2013, at 12:06 AM, jcbollinger [...] wrote:
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> This is where it fell apart for me before, I didn't realise that you
> assumed $::app_packages was every possible package; in my first post I'd
> specified th
Hi John
On 14/06/2013, at 12:06 AM, jcbollinger wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:15:22 AM UTC-5, Tom Lanyon wrote:
>> On 05/06/2013, at 11:51 PM, jcbollinger [...] wrote:
>> > I don't much like that general approach in the first place on account of
>> > the $requested_package paramet
On Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:15:22 AM UTC-5, Tom Lanyon wrote:
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> On 05/06/2013, at 11:51 PM, jcbollinger [...] wrote:
> > I don't much like that general approach in the first place on account of
> the $requested_package parameter. That you encounter difficulty when you
> try something a bi
Hi John,
Sorry for the delayed reply.
On 05/06/2013, at 11:51 PM, jcbollinger wrote:
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>> Sorry, I should have been clearer that this occurs when Package[package-434]
>> IS declared elsewhere. "!defined(Package[package-434])" therefore is false,
>> so just by referencing the existing declarat
On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 6:01:58 PM UTC-5, Tom Lanyon wrote:
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> Hi John,
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> Thanks for the reply.
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> On 05/06/2013, at 12:33 AM, jcbollinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 1:22:08 AM UTC-5, Tom Lanyon wrote:
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> > Unfortunately, this results in a dependency cycle. It appears that
Hi John,
Thanks for the reply.
On 05/06/2013, at 12:33 AM, jcbollinger wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 4, 2013 1:22:08 AM UTC-5, Tom Lanyon wrote:
> I'm testing a 'cleanup' stage which runs after Stage[main] and removes a
> bunch of package resources.
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> To do this, I tried a simple check of defin
I'm testing a 'cleanup' stage which runs after Stage[main] and removes a bunch
of package resources.
To do this, I tried a simple check of defined(Package[]) combined with a
custom facter fact (called 'app_packages'):
> class app::package::cleaner {
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> define check_and_remove {
> if !de
