On Dec 1, 2010, at 2:21 PM, saysjonathan wrote:
>>> I don't see why the order of the properties would make any difference to
>>> the way this applies. They are not executed in sequence from what I
>>> understand.
>>
>> Properties actually are executed in the order in which they're defined,
>> although I think we always special-case 'ensure' to make sure it's first.
>>
>> Luke Kanies
>
> So, while I understand it's not the most elegant solution, simply
> moving the home property before the uid and gid properties is a viable
> solution? It is the cleanest and does not affect other resource types,
> whereas changes to the objectadd or nameservice providers could have
> negative effects beyond just the user type.
>
> What are the other options? Are these options suitable for a point
> release?
James still hasn't recovered from finding out that Puppet does actually respect
property definition order, so I don't know what his opinion is, but yeah, this
is a reasonable solution in my opinion.
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