Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: Dealing with transitional states in Puppet

2014-12-22 Thread Felix Frank
On 12/22/2014 07:55 PM, Reid Vandewiele wrote: > > And does the transitional state copy/inherit anything from the > target final state given for the named resource, or does it have > only the (explicit) attributes specified in the Transition resource? > > > Yes. Right now all attribute

Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: Dealing with transitional states in Puppet

2014-12-22 Thread Reid Vandewiele
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:11 AM, John Bollinger wrote: > > [...] > > I went looking for holes to poke in this approach, and didn't find any. I > like that it builds on Puppet's core concepts of resources and state, and > that it appears to be general enough to be adapted to a wide variety of > s

[Puppet-dev] Re: Dealing with transitional states in Puppet

2014-12-22 Thread John Bollinger
On Monday, December 22, 2014 11:11:24 AM UTC-6, John Bollinger wrote: > > I went looking for holes to poke in this approach, and didn't find any. > Having just posted that, I thought of this: use of a Transition resource makes sense only if all the 'prior_to' resources have a 'before' rela

[Puppet-dev] Re: Dealing with transitional states in Puppet

2014-12-22 Thread John Bollinger
On Friday, December 19, 2014 3:14:23 PM UTC-6, Reid Vandewiele wrote: > > This thread is introducing a simple workaround for an observed limitation > in Puppet's ability to automate inelegant but real configuration > requirements. The desired outcome is to get feedback on the suitability of >