Dear Felix,
Thanks a ton for your reply and great piece of information.
I will do the needful on my side.
Thanks again,
Regards,
Rakesh K.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Felix Frank <
felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/20/2013 06:43 AM, Rakesh Kathpal wrote:
> > file { 'install':
> > path => "c:\install.bat",
> ...
> > exec {'install_sw':
> > file { 'remove':
> > ensure => absent,
> ...
> > I am quite sure that there is something
> > syntactically wrong my code but donno what? Can someone please shed some
> > light on this?
>
> Actually, sorry to say this, but there's something conceptually wrong
> with this.
>
> You're walking into the "C-like programming language" trap. The thing is
> - the puppet DSL is nothing like traditional, statement based
> programming. The above are not three statements that are executed in
> order. They are supposed to be three properties of system state.
>
> You are telling puppet that you want it to make sure three things hold
> true:
> 1. c:\install.bat is present and has specific content
> 2. c:\install.bat is getting executed
> 3. c:\install.bat is not on your system
>
> 1 and 3 are conflicting. Puppet cannot maintain a state in which both
> are true. You will have a hard time bending puppet towards this behaviour.
>
> I suggest you just get rid of the final file resource and let the
> install.bat remain (but do choose a location that is better suited to
> store such internal administrative data).
>
> Also please note that you probably either want to add "refreshonly" to
> your exec resource, but that is rather unclean design (if the execution
> fails once, puppet will not know it needs to re-run because the file
> will not notify it again).
> The better alternative is a sensible "creates" or "unless" condition.
>
> HTH,
> Felix
>
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