Issue #15186 has been updated by Chris Price.
So here is what makes this challenging; imagine this command:
puppet --mode user catalog
Now, ideally, this would be valid... because the face that you are calling is
the 'catalog' face, and it does indeed have a '--mode' option that accepts the
value 'user'. However, the problem is that we don't *know* that until we
determine which word in the command is the face name. When parsing this
command line string we can easily ignore the "--mode" part because we know it's
the name of an option; however, we don't know whether or not the option accepts
a value. So we don't really have any way of knowing whether to treat "user" as
the value of an option or as the face name... all of the approaches that I can
think of for trying to solve this problem seem hacky and perhaps slow...
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Bug #15186: Global arguments should be allowed before or after face name
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15186#change-65649
Author: Luke Kanies
Status: Accepted
Priority: High
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Affected Puppet version: 3.0.0rc3
Keywords:
Branch:
This code works:
puppet apply --config ~/.puppet/puppet.conf foo.pp
But this fails:
puppet --config ~/.puppet/puppet.conf apply foo.pp
With this error:
See 'puppet help' for help on available puppet subcommands
(Note the complete uselessness of that error.)
These should be fixed to work either side, or at least provide a useful error.
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