Jira (PUP-1461) Exec resource not notified but onlyif check gets executed anyway

[John Bollinger (JIRA)]

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John Bollinger commented on an issue   Re: Exec resource not notified but onlyif check gets executed anyway The bottom line is that the observed behavior is by design. The 'onlyif', 'unless', and 'creates' parameters of an Exec serve the purpose of determining whether that resource is already in sync at the beginning of the run. As such, 'onlyif' and 'unless', if given, are always run as part of applying an Exec resource. This is intentional. As an entirely separate consideration, if an Exec has refreshonly => true, then syncing that Exec – if it should turn out to be needed – is a no-op. That is, the effect of refreshonly => true is approximately the same as the effect of specifying the erstwhile 'command' parameter as the 'refresh' parameter instead, combined with specifying the 'command' as '/bin/true'. For what it's worth, I agree both that Peter described a different (but related) issue, and that the behavior Peter describes is surprising. That one might indeed be characterized as a bug, but this one is a feature/improvement request (though I am not persuaded that it would in fact constitute an improvement). Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1461 Exec resource not notified but onlyif check gets executed anyway Please have a look at this simplified example. {code}     class runtimevariation {       # dummy file ressources that should represent       # some real software deployment       file { '/tmp/software-v1': ensure => present, }            file { '/tmp/software-v2': ensure => present, }            file { '/tmp/software-v3': ensure => present, } ... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.