On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Andy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Jeff McCune <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Does this still leave us in the difficult situation where the Faces
>> application file itself lives along the modulepath, so we use one
>> configuration file section to determine the module path, then the mode
>> (section) changes out from underneath us, and we use another section
>> to resolve the rest of the settings?  How would a new action
>> augmenting the `puppet module` application behave in this situation?
>
> Yeah, we are still in that situation. The settings that are seen during the
> run are not necessarily in line with what was used during application
> discover. There is actually even a slightly larger issue: the modulepath
> during discovery is being added to the ruby LOAD_PATH so that utility code
> can be loaded. This means that it may end up with things that it maybe
> "shouldn't" have access to because it started with one modulepath and then
> wanted to run in "master" mode to get a different modulepath. I don't think
> this is a problem for any existing applications, though, since I'm special
> casing master and agent to start in the current manner.

At least `puppet resource` and `apply` probably depend on the same
run_mode vs LOAD_PATH thing, because they interact directly with the
type and provider system.  Ditto the resource face.

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