It's great to hear you found the problem, that should be easier to not get
wrong. What docs were you following when you made this?
As to why it works the first time but not others… I can only think it had
something weird to do with file naming, but I can't really imagine what.
On May 2, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Brian Warsing wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I figured out what I was doing wrong...
>
> I did not place the provider inside it's own directory in lib ('lib/
> puppet/provider/simple/simple.rb').
>
> Foolish.
>
> Still, perhaps somebody can explain why this works the first time, but
> subsequently fails?
>
> Any info appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On May 1, 9:56 am, Brian Warsing <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have run into an issue where a Simple/Type provider will worl
>> correctly on the first run, but subsequent runs produice an error:
>>
>> err: /Stage[main]/Custom/Simple[some_useless_file]: Could not
>> evaluate: No ability to determine if simple exists
>>
>> Here is the code:
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/2569267
>>
>> I have created several other providers, and I have run into this issue
>> before, but I don't know how to explain it. Sometimes, it just goes
>> away, btu then there are times like this, when it persists regardless
>> of what I do.
>>
>> Other times, a simple change to the provider code like adding a `puts`
>> statement, will renew the ability to apply, but very often it is
>> (again) only for a single run.
>>
>> Likewise, purging the contents of /var/lib/puppet will induce it to
>> work, but subsequent runs again fail.
>>
>> I am seriously baffled by this.
>>
>> Can anybody enlighten me?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>> Brian
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