On Oct 27, 2009, at 5:01 PM, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> ----- "Luke Kanies" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 27, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Markus Roberts wrote:
>>
>>>> For instance, I know Volcane has mentioned that the reason he
>>>> overrides environments on clients is because it's the only way he
>>>> can force ordering.
>>>
>>> As in having proto-environments that you sequentially pass through
>>> on the way to the final environment (no skipping stages!) or am I
>>> missing the point here?
>>
>> More like "I know X has to be done before my main configuration
>> works,
>> so I put X in a special 'setup' environment and run it once".
>> I.e., exactly what I desperately want to avoid and am embarrassed is
>> necessary. I think fixing this is probably the real goal here.
>
>
> We've often discussed 'anchor' classes on the graph.
>
> So there might be a class beforehook and afterhook that if nothing
> gets done simply ends up before and after all classes.
>
> But if I now do:
>
> file{"/foo":
> require => Class["afterhook"]
> }
>
> or
>
> file{"/foo":
> before => Class["beforehook"]
> }
>
> I would basically ensure these things happen first or last, and if i
> had 10 things to happen first - configure yum, create repos, make
> cache - I'd just make them all happen before beforehook.
>
> I'd hate to imagine the hell of coding this behavior though
My guess is that someone well-versed in graphs could knock this out
pretty quickly, but that someone isn't me. :/
Solving this just got bumped up pretty heavily on my priority list, so
you should probably expect a solution in rowlf. I've just no idea wtf
it'll be. :)
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