Hello, I've been trying to implement a puppet definition that uses vcsrepo and notifies the caller through an update_notify parameter when the repository contents change on disk. I have however found this very hard to accomplish.
Basically I am trying to pull down a git repo and when the head of the repo changes on the disk of the agent, run a build command (such as make) into a release directory. So the system automatically tracks a branch or responds to changes in tags and the system automatically builds off of that information. In order to allow for multiple types of build processes I am trying to notify other resources through the exec notify property. My problem is this: The only way to trigger the notification in a conditional manner that I have found is to use the onlyif or unless properties on the exec resource. Notifications still happen on the exec command even if the command fails so I can not use an inline command to notify or not (that I know of). But the onlyif property which I have been trying seems to execute before any of the actual commands so it always runs before the vcsrepo update, which voids the intended purpose. I can not use functions with a conditional because they are only run on puppet master and also suffer from the same issue where they run before any commands, and I can not use a fact because I need a directory parameter and it is also runs before any of the commands. So I need a way to conditionally trigger a notify during the course of a execution run right after the vcsrepo gets done pulling down any updates. Does anyone know how I might accomplish this task through puppet? So far nothing I have tried works. I would think that this goal would not be that isolated (building a repository after and only after repository updates). In my case I normally build into release directories so absolutely can not afford to rebuild on every puppet execution which runs every 5 minutes. Thanks for any help you can provide! Adrian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/NNQsDH1nox8J. 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.
