Issue #2935 has been updated by Luke Kanies. Priority changed from Normal to High
This just got a lot more important. The single executable work breaks all of the search path stuff, or at least enough of it to make things complicated. The right answer is something along the lines of: * Explicitly model a 'mode', or maybe 'run_mode', with values for 'agent', 'master', and 'user' * Modify *all* all of the executables to explicitly set a 'mode' * Add backward compatibility for searching through puppet.conf for settings based on executable names, but it has to use the old executable names, yay. The thing that's complicated here is that a lot of the settings determine their values based on this value. I think the reason that the value is currently auto-determined is so that it happens before any of the other settings are determined. I think, unfortunately, that the only way to really fix this is to have code as the value for those settings whose values are determined in this way. That is, Puppet[:vardir] should determine automatically (when not overriden) whether you want /var/puppet or ~/.puppet/var depending on the value of Puppet[:mode] (or whatever it's called). Unfortunately (sorry Jesse!) I think the only way to do this is to add... duh duh duh... per-mode defaults. ---------------------------------------- Feature #2935: Settings should use 'agent' and 'server' in addition to executable names http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2935 Author: Luke Kanies Status: Accepted Priority: High Assigned to: Jesse Wolfe Category: settings Target version: Rowlf Affected version: 0.25.1 Keywords: Branch: There's a lot of reasonable confusion around the fact that executable names are used for searching for settings. It makes more sense to basically split into client/server setting groups. We should add a new search path, 'client' and 'server', and have them sit between the defaults and the executable names. So, the search path would be something like: cli => environment => executable => client/server => default Then each executable just declares whether it's an agent executable or a server-side one. -- 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://projects.puppetlabs.com/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.
