Issue #3873 has been updated by Luke Kanies. Status changed from Needs design decision to Accepted Assigned to deleted (Luke Kanies)
Seems like this should be fixed to only mention the executable that starts the command? ---------------------------------------- Bug #3873: Unexpected dependency created by exec http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3873 Author: Ben Beuchler Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assigned to: Category: RAL Target version: Affected version: 0.25.4 Keywords: Branch: It looks like the Exec type is automatically creating dependencies on any files mentioned in the "onlyif" and "unless" parameters. While I understand that this is likely to be the most commonly desired behavior, it can unexpectedly break things. As an example, this is the code that triggered the behavior for me: <pre> class syslog-ng::weblogger inherits syslog-ng { $alp = "/var/spool/apache2/access_log_pipe" file { "/var/spool/apache2": ensure => directory, owner => www-data, group => www-data } File["/etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf"] { require => File[ "$alp" ] } # If apache started first and created $alp as a normal file, delete # it. exec { "cleanup_alp": command => "/bin/rm ${alp}", unless => "/usr/bin/test -p ${alp}", } # If the FIFO doesn't exist, create it. exec { "access_log_pipe": command => "/usr/bin/mkfifo ${alp}", unless => "/usr/bin/test -p ${alp}", require => Exec["cleanup_alp"], } # Ensure permissions are correct on the pipe. file { "$alp": ensure => present, owner => www-data, group => www-data, mode => 0770, require => Exec["access_log_pipe"] } } </pre> I'll attach the relevant section of the `--graph` output. Note the unrequested dependency between `Exec[cleanup_alp]` and `File[/var/spool/apache2/access_log_pipe]`. Filing this as a bug as suggested by Dan Bode: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/73a98af374c3f7f2 -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
