[augeas-devel] Re: [Puppet Users] Testing help for new Augeas Puppet provider which only executes if required

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 16:26 -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> so.. the next question this is if we attempt the model of not executing 
> unless changes are made at the initial scan, it is possible that some 
> other change between steps 3.3 and 5.1 would have caused a change to 
> occur. So... even if I reload there could be issues.

Yes, though that's a general issue with puppet, and ultimately, there's
no good way to do check-and-change type operations on files, since they
can not be done atomically. I wouldn't sweat it; if you have a false
negative, the next puppet run will catch it ;)

David