Hey. I think this discussion totally deserves a feature/bug report in redmine, because both positions are reasonable. They do point to a hole where our specifation seems vague, and where we *should* have made a decision: right now we have a real chance of changing whatever the behaviour is by accident.
Matthew, do you want to file this at https://projects.puppetlabs.com for us, along with the why behind your desire? Regards, Daniel -- Puppet Labs Developer –http://puppetlabs.com Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> Contact me via gtalk, email, or phone: +1 (877) 575-9775 Sent from a mobile device. Please forgive me if this is briefer than usual. On Feb 14, 2011 9:16 AM, "Felix Frank" <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 02/14/2011 05:27 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: >> >> On 2011/02/14, at 11:12, Felix Frank wrote: >> >>> On 02/10/2011 08:47 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote: >>>> >>>> The docs are vague on how the two interact.. but it seems to me that 'creates' will override 'onlyif' in an exec clause. i.e. if the file named by 'creates' exists, then 'onlyif' is ignored. Is someone able to confirm that? >>> >>> I cannot positively confirm, but the opposite wouldn't make a bit of >>> sense to me. >> >> Sometimes files exist already but need to be updated. With 'creates' and 'onlyif' both set, I'd expect an OR behaviour: write the file if the file referenced by 'creates' doesn't exist, OR if 'onlyif' evaluates to true. > > I wouldn't expect that, as that's what an imaginary "alwaysif" would do. > > But that's possibly just me ;-) > > If in doubt, get rid of the create and include a "test -e" in your > onlyif statement. > > Cheers, > Felix > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
