Re: [Puppet Users] Errors in 2.6.1

Nigel Kersten
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:55:00 -0000

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Dan Urist <durist@ucar.edu>
wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:52:05 -0700
> Nigel Kersten <nigelk@google.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I''ve actually always considered this to be relatively
comprehensible.
>>
>> Client and server start with a clean slate.
>> Client requests module X
>> Server parses module X via autoloading, complains about parse error.
>> Client requests module X
>> Server tells you it can''t find it as it''s not going
to reattempt
>> parsing unless the file changes.
>>
>> Does it really impact upon debugging that much?
>
> I''ve also found the inconsistency in the errors very confusing,
but
> this explanation makes perfect sense.
>
>> What do you think makes more sense? To not present the parsing error
>> to the client at all? Or to continuously try and parse manifests even
>> though the server thinks that they have a parse error?
>
> Maybe cache the error for consistency if that''s not too much work,
or at
> least document the behavior, maybe as a FAQ?

Doug, did you put a bug report in?

If there''s a clear way to cache the initial error, that does seem like
the most user friendly solution.



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