Issue #7917 has been updated by Jeff McCune.

(Copied from github comments)

Daniel,

I'm in agreement with Nan.

We do make claims that puppet apply is a "first class citizen" and community 
members like Jordan Sissel heavily rely on puppet apply being feature complete 
with puppet agent.

Furthermore, puppet apply is more suitable for situations like Vagrant where a 
full master is not avaialable or necessary.

Finally, as we integrate more with MCollective, the classes.txt file becomes 
ever more important for filtering.

For these reasons I think we should still write the file and we should write it 
to the same file the agent writes to by default.

If the end user desires, we support writing to multiple files as Nan 
illustrated above.

I'll re-open this once. If you still disagree, please feel free to close the 
pull request and I won't re-open it.

-Jeff
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Bug #7917: Puppet apply runmode should write classes.txt file
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7917

Author: Jeff McCune
Status: Needs Decision
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: settings
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 
Keywords: 
Branch: 


# Overview #
The classes.txt file is only written when running Puppet in the agent run mode.

It would be useful for integration with MCollective filtering if this
file were also written when running Puppet the stand alone apply run
mode.

<pre>
# The file in which puppet agent stores a list of the classes
# associated with the retrieved configuration.  Can be loaded in
# the separate `puppet` executable using the `--loadclasses`
# option.
# The default value is '$statedir/classes.txt'.
classfile = /var/lib/puppet/state/classes.txt
</pre>

This would be useful with MCollective's configuration setting of:

    classesfile = /var/lib/puppet/state/classes.txt

# Impact Data #

This is just my own personal observation.  Nobody has actually asked
for this as far as I know.


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