On 18 Feb 2011, at 11:19 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:48, Ian Ward Comfort <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yeah, requiring just the first managed parent, as suggested, would be 
>> sufficient. I wasn't sure how to implement this, though, from a quick glance 
>> through the code. The logic that iterates over possible autorequires and 
>> adds relationships for anything found in the catalog is up in Puppet.Type.
>> 
>> Any ideas for how to do that trimming?
> 
> Nope. :)
> 
> I was interested in characterizing the problem fully, so we understand what 
> the request was, but I have no idea what the solution is presently.  That 
> part is just code, though, so how hard can it be? ;)

Heh, right. I was trying to think of a clean way to give types a way to say, 
"autorequire the first of these dependencies that's found in the catalog, and 
ignore the rest". Adding an autorequirefirst method would do it in a 
backwards-compatible way, but that feels icky.

-- 
Ian Ward Comfort <[email protected]>
Systems Team Lead, Academic Computing Services, Stanford University

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