Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question

2016-03-02 Thread Kylo Ginsberg
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:50 AM, Trevor Vaughan wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a very interesting conversation and I'm monitoring to see where it > ends up. > I see what you did there ;) Thanks for the chuckle. > > You're going to want to have a central location for

Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question

2016-03-02 Thread Kylo Ginsberg
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Nan Liu wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:43 AM R.I.Pienaar wrote: > >> >> >> - Original Message - >> > From: "Kylo Ginsberg" >> > To: "puppet-dev" >> > Sent:

Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question

2016-03-02 Thread Nan Liu
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:43 AM R.I.Pienaar wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Kylo Ginsberg" > > To: "puppet-dev" > > Sent: Wednesday, 2 March, 2016 06:59:08 > > Subject: Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question > >

Re: [Puppet-dev] Trying to consolidate/batch command execution in a provider

2016-03-02 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Ugh, I forgot about that. I fixed it over in IPTables but may not have gone back to cgroups since it was pretty much deprecated under systemd in EL7. Try this one: https://github.com/simp/pupmod-simp-iptables/blob/master/lib/puppet/provider/iptables_rule/manage.rb . Basically, nailing up the

Re: [Puppet-dev] Trying to consolidate/batch command execution in a provider

2016-03-02 Thread Shawn Ferry
> On Feb 6, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote: > > Hi Shawn, > > This is very much possible, but the implementation is going to be a true hack > that pollutes the global namespace until > https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-4002 >

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-02 Thread R.I.Pienaar
> On 2 Mar 2016, at 21:16, Trevor Vaughan wrote: > > R.I., did I just hear you make a suggestion for writing fact DDL files? Not > sure how I feel about that, they're a pain to deal with and confuse users. Not specifically. Types already have doc strings similar would

Re: [Puppet-dev] Facter config file

2016-03-02 Thread Trevor Vaughan
R.I., did I just hear you make a suggestion for writing fact DDL files? Not sure how I feel about that, they're a pain to deal with and confuse users. The features that I would like to add my vote for: * Fact TTLs * Custom fact execution timeouts * Fact execution timeouts * Fact parallelization

Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question

2016-03-02 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Now that I'm thinking more about it, I 100% want this. There have been quite a few occasions where I didn't want to pass back an epic ton of fact data just to change a small amount of logic. Being able to bookend my resources without a hacky exec chain would be great. Propagating that check to

Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question

2016-03-02 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Hi all, This is a very interesting conversation and I'm monitoring to see where it ends up. You're going to want to have a central location for organizing this information between nodes since there are no guarantees that any two nodes can get bi-directional communications between each other.

Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question

2016-03-02 Thread R.I.Pienaar
- Original Message - > From: "Kylo Ginsberg" > To: "puppet-dev" > Sent: Wednesday, 2 March, 2016 06:59:08 > Subject: Re: [Puppet-dev] metaparam question > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:02 AM, R.I.Pienaar wrote: > >>