On Sep 14, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Jesse A Wolfe wrote:
>
>
> So basically, you can see that the params aren't including the facts, and
> this is a problem with the run_mode, which I don't quite understand. Jesse
> Wolfe should be able to help with that, I think, and once you've got that
> sorted you should be all set.
>
>
> Basically the run_mode is an abstraction for which command line name you used
> to invoke puppet - usually "master" or "agent" (but sometimes "user", for
> other tools).
> In the pre-2.6.x world, this same logic would be controlled by the $0 ruby
> variable (the name of the executable as invoked from your operating system)
> Things have gotten a little more complicated in the 2.6.x world, but not much.
>
> Some places deep in the puppet code query Puppet.run_mode() directly, because
> they used to query $0 directly. In a perfect world, we'd always pass
> parameters to methods when we wanted different behavior, or at least use
> other, smaller Puppet settings to set behavior.
> When I was designing it, it didn't occur to me that people writing scripts
> using puppet as a library would need to care about run_mode - but as long as
> code reaches to it to determine the behavior, I guess they will.
> Unfortunately there's not (yet) a direct way of changing it (this is tangled
> up in way the Settings singleton works) - but setting $0 and/or changing ARGV
> to what they would look like when running the puppet application you want to
> ape, (*before* loading the puppet libs), should still work.
> So we're more-or-less in the same situation we've been in all along.
Is there a problem with just cutting all of the run_mode auto stuff, making it
a global setting (on the RunMode class or on Puppet or whatever), and then
making it easily assignable?
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