Jira (PUP-1125) Exec checks should be turned into metaparameters

[Kylo Ginsberg (JIRA)]

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Kylo Ginsberg commented on an issue   Re: Exec checks should be turned into metaparameters You could probably distill this down to a more general case: resources whose ordering depends on another resource that isn't managed in Puppet. Yes, that seems like the primary abstraction that's being requested. Although Frederik Wagner's "package A unless package B" example earlier on suggests two resource manageable by puppet, so it did make me wonder if there was also a request for conditional relationships between two managed (or noop'd) puppet resources? I'm not quite sure how that would work though It'd be nice to have an easy way to tell Puppet to check whether some outside task has been completed before applying certain parts of the manifest, without having to write a custom fact for every time that this shows up. Is a custom fact (or even easier, an external fact) that much harder? And wouldn't an external fact allow for a more DRY approach, e.g. if the same conditional logic was needed in more than one place? I'm not trolling; I think I may be missing some pain point. And if so, that makes me wonder if we should work on alleviating that pain point, rather than working around it by adding metaparameters. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1125 Exec checks should be turned into metaparameters The 'checks' in Exec -- refreshonly, onlyif and unless -- should be changed into metaparameters, so they're available for all resource types. My guess is that this will require defining a new type of metaparameter, in the same way that the Exec checks are a slightly different type of parameter. This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.