Jira (PUP-5874) Purging doesn't work when a package dependancy is required inside same catalog

[Branan Riley (JIRA)]

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Branan Riley commented on PUP-5874   Re: Purging doesn't work when a package dependancy is required inside same catalog My understanding of what's happening here: Resources to be purged are generated before any resources in the catalog are applied. This is done by calling `self.instances` on the to-be-purged type. If that type can't query its instances due to a missing package, the Resources instance will fail to generate its children, and no purging will happen. If we moved purge to use `eval_generate` this would work, but at the expense of breaking autorequires against purged resources, wihch I just fixed in PUP-1963 . Possibly we want to have an option on the Resources type for whether it should `generate` or `eval_generate`, but the naming of that, and the tradeoffs it creates around relationships to the Resources type and the instances it generates, need to be thought out very carefully. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.12#64027-sha1:e3691cc) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.