This is now https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17507
On Nov 8, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> If you setup a schedule such that packages are only installed certain hours
> of the day, well, that part works. They won't install until that time.
> However, if you have a policy that depends on the package being installed, if
> it is NOT installed due to the schedule, it satisfies the Require and
> everything else happens. I'm going to call this misfeature: "No package? No
> Problem! ":(
>
> Example: with this example, if you apply the policy after 8pm (if you are
> using UTC like we are, that's noon PST) then it will actually install the
> configuration files and attempt to start the service. This is clearly a bug.
> Given some multi-application interactions, this could cause a major service
> outage. (I didn't find this with snmp but instead with some inhouse system
> components. I replicated it with this config before reporting it)
>
> I observed this on 2.7.19 but checking the sources it appears likely to be a
> problem with 3.0 as well.
>
> site.pp:
> # Schedule in the early part of the working day (not peak)
> schedule { 'early-day':
> range => '17 - 20',
> period => daily,
> periodmatch => number,
> }
> Package {
> schedule => 'early-day',
> }
> node default {
> class { snmpd: }
> }
>
> class snmpd {
> package { 'net-snmp':
> ensure => present,
> alias => 'snmpd',
> }
> package { 'net-snmp-perl':
> ensure => present,
> require => Package['net-snmp'],
> }
> file { "/etc/sysconfig/snmpd":
> owner => root,
> group => root,
> mode => 0755,
> source => 'puppet:///modules/snmpd/snmpd.sysconfig',
> require => Package['net-snmp'],
> notify => Service['snmpd'],
> }
> file { '/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf':
> ensure => file,
> owner => root,
> group => root,
> mode => 0755,
> content => template('snmpd/snmpd.conf'),
> require => Package['net-snmp'],
> notify => Service['snmpd'],
> }
> service { 'snmpd':
> ensure => running,
> enable => true,
> require => Package['net-snmp','net-snmp-perl'],
> }
> }
>
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> Jo Rhett
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> projects.
>
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