Mea culpa for a misleading information. Thanks John for the explanation, I didn't know about the 'particular instant during the catalog compilation'. And for the ensure => absent, I haven't thought about that one.
-- Yanis Guenane On 08/20/2014 09:11 AM, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:10:26 AM UTC-5, Yanis Guenane > wrote: >> >> If your file `/volumes/vol1` could be managed by Puppet somehow, >> you could use if defined(File['/volumes/vol1']) as a condition. >> >> Not sure if it is possible in your case, >> > > > Whether it's possible is irrelevant, because that's not *correct* > in any case. That use of the defined() function tests whether > File['/volumes/vol1'] is in the catalog -- and even then it tests > only at a particular instant during catalog compilation, ignoring > any later addition of such a resource to the catalog. AND it will > return true if File['/volumes/vol1'] has ensure => absent. None of > that has anything to do with whether said file/directory is > actually present on the target system at the start of the run, or > at any random point in the middle of a run. > > Do not use defined(). Ever. > > > John > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/53F4C0B5.2010908%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
