On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, at 18:00, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
> On 13/12/17 17:40, R.I.Pienaar wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, at 16:31, Henrik Lindberg wrote:
> >> On 13/12/17 14:46, Tobias Koeck wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am wondering what the difference between a Resource Default statement
> >>> like
> >>>
> >>> |Exec { path => '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin', environment =>
> >>> 'RUBYLIB=/opt/puppetlabs/puppet/lib/ruby/site_ruby/2.1.0/', logoutput =>
> >>> true, timeout => 180, }
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> What the others said is not quite accurate.
> >>
> >> This sets the defaults for all Exec resources that are declared in the
> >> same scope, or in any scope that is included from this scope. This is
> >> known as Dynamic Scoping and it is a horribly bad idea that is removed
> >> from modern puppet for everything except Resource Defaults (what the
> >> example construct is known as). The less you use this the better.
> >
> > There's been a very unfortunate puppet 5 behaviour change here:
> >
> > class bar {
> > notify{"three": }
> > }
> >
> > class foo {
> > include bar
> >
> > notify{"one": }
> > Notify{message => "default"}
> > notify{"two": }
> > }
> >
> > include foo
> >
> > In 4 this would do as you say, both would use "default", but in 5...
> >
> > Notice: three
> > Notice: /Stage[main]/Bar/Notify[three]/message: defined 'message' as
> > 'three'
> > Notice: one
> > Notice: /Stage[main]/Foo/Notify[one]/message: defined 'message' as
> > 'one'
> > Notice: default
> > Notice: /Stage[main]/Foo/Notify[two]/message: defined 'message' as
> > 'default'
> >
> > The positioning of the 'include' here would also change the behavior of
> > the 'three' resource
> >
> > Bug or feature? Don't care personally, no-one should use this awful
> > feature.
> >
> > Though I thought we killed the dynamic scope stuff wrt this :(
> >
>
> Unfortunately that was not a deliberate change. It just means that the
> testing for how defaults are supposed to work has holes in it.
> I don't want it back though, and we have no error reports regarding
> this. I hope it stays that way and that we can drop the resource
> defaults or make them sane.
came up a few times in slack and irc, selfishly did not ask for them to
make tickets :P
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