Re: [Puppet Users] Order of removal of resources

2016-09-21 Thread Peter Faller
That was a contrived, simplified example. The real situation is much more complicated. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@

Re: [Puppet Users] Order of removal of resources

2016-09-21 Thread Rob Nelson
The dependency warning may be overstated a bit, in your situation you're not likely to cause that issue by accident. Another view might be that systems should be built from scratch when significant changes are made. Regardless of your CM tool, that's generally a better idea these days - even upgra

Re: [Puppet Users] Order of removal of resources

2016-09-21 Thread Peter Faller
Thanks Craig - that does work, but what it says in the documentation is true: "Note: Chained collectors can potentially cause huge dependency cycles and should be used carefully." This approach works fine

Re: [Puppet Users] Order of removal of resources

2016-09-21 Thread Craig Dunn
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Peter Faller wrote: > What is the effect of the 'require' metaparameter when ensure is set to > absent, i.e. when a resource > is removed? It seems that changes to the required resource are applied > before changes to the requiring > resource are applied - is that