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Ticket #614 (reopened enhancement)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 7 months ago

The defaults of 'ensure' should be better characterized

Reported by: luke Assigned to: luke
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: RAL Version:
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Needs design decision
Attached Patches: None Complexity: Medium

Description

Currently, 'ensure' defaults to 'present' on all managed resources, but it uses code to do so, rather than using data. This means that it's difficult to document, but it also means that you can't say things like, only modify this resource if it doesn't exist, otherwise ignore it (i.e., don't create it).

The behaviour here should be better characterized, and probably should support some kind of selection where by default it defaults to 'present', I guess, but could be switched to support only modifying existing hosts.

Change History

04/24/08 07:34:28 changed by luke

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

This supercedes #294.

04/24/08 07:34:52 changed by luke

  • status changed from closed to reopened.
  • resolution deleted.

04/24/08 07:45:53 changed by luke

  • component changed from library to RAL.