On Dec 14, 2010, at 4:58 AM, Peter Meier wrote:
>> However, there are a few technical hurdles we need to cross before we
>> can do it in the core. In particular, we need to resolve all
>> relationships before we trim the catalog in this way - e.g., someone
>> can currently depend on one of those wrapping definitions, and if you
>> just remove that wrapper, the dependency will fail.
>
> Yes. Actually, what I meant with "flatten the catalog" would be to pass
> the dependencies from the definition down to the "real" resources. As
> far as I understood the dependencies in puppet this would be equal to
> have the dependencies on the wrapping define, right?
Ah. The current catalog has a 'splice!' method that does this, so it should
be, well, straightforward if not exactly easy.
>> One of our goals is to get to the point where the dependencies are
>> all resolved on the server anyway, and this could be a good driver to
>> get that done. I also want to make it easier to have things like
>> post-compile filters on the server for this kind of work, but it's
>> not all that challenging at this point - at worst, you could do
>> something like create a 'compile_trim' terminus that uses the
>> existing compiler terminus but trims the results in the way you're
>> mentioning, and then start puppetmasterd with
>> --catalog_terminus=compiler_trim.
>>
>> Does that make sense? Is it worth your experimenting with that?
>
> Yep, makes sense. Whether I will start experimenting with your
> suggestion depends a bit on the requirements I will get to further
> optimize things.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm currently quite occupied with the daily business,
> which reduces my time for experiments. However, I thought it might be
> worth to share my ideas and also to open the mentioned feature request,
> so at least it is documented.
It's definitely interesting to hear what constraints people run into as
catalogs get especially large, so this is very useful.
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