Issue #1605 has been updated by luke. Status changed from Rejected to Closed
This actually already works -- if any resource fails, none of its dependent resources will have any work done for them. There's no system-wide halt-on-error, but a given branch of the resource graph is pruned at any errors. ---------------------------------------- Feature #1605: Halt on error http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/show/1605 Author: zanzamer Status: Closed Priority: High Assigned to: Category: Target version: unplanned Complexity: Unknown Affected version: 0.24.4 Keywords: Hi, Stopping an automated policy enforcement on errors is essiential to prevent production systems damage. Would puppet support such a feature? Please send updates on this subject to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From http://www.infrastructures.org/papers/turing/turing.html : " 7.2.1 Right Commands, Wrong Order First we will cover a trivial but devastating example that is easily avoided. This once happened to a colleague while doing manual operations on a machine. He wanted to clean out the contents of a directory which ordinarily had the development group's source code NFS mounted over top of it. Here is what he wanted to do: umount /apps/src cd /apps/src rm -rf . mount /apps/src Here's what he actually did: umount /apps/src ...umount fails, directory in use; while resolving this, his pager goes off, he handles the interrupt, then... cd /apps/src rm -rf . Needless to say, there had also been no backup of the development source tree for quite some time... " ---------------------------------------- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://reductivelabs.com/redmine/my/account --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
