On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 9:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a provider which is managing entries in a Windows registry hive
> which may or may not be loaded. If the hive is not loaded, I load it in
> '#exists?'. The question I have is: how can I ensure that this hive in
> unloaded when I'm done with it?
>
> I can unload it in '#flush', except for the case where the resource
> doesn't change. I thought maybe a dummy property (that unloads the hive in
> its setter, or alternatively ensures that the resource always changes,
> forcing #flush to be called) could be used, but that seems like a really
> crappy solution.
>
> Is there a 'proper' way to do this sort of thing?
>

Currently I'm doing a horrible monkey patch of Puppet::Transaction (caveats
implied):
https://github.com/vmware/vmware-vmware_lib/blob/master/lib/puppet_x/puppetlabs/transport.rb#L4-L13

I think there's an open ticket, and I would like to find a better option
for this as well.

HTH,

Nan

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