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James Turnbull  
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 More options Sep 14 2012, 4:22 pm
From: James Turnbull <ja...@lovedthanlost.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:22:12 -0700
Local: Fri, Sep 14 2012 4:22 pm
Subject: Re: DevOps withdrawals!
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Adam Jacob wrote:
> So, that's not really true. Chef does not have a DAG for the
> resource collection, but it's not because graphs are bad. It's
> because consistency of ordering matters, and it is very difficult to
> get consistent ordering out of a topologically sorted directed graph
> (which is how you get the final order of resource to apply in
> Puppet.) They've done some work making things more consistent, but
> there are still degenerate cases where it isn't. Some people care,
> some people don't. It's cool. :)

So be clear, we've done more than "some work making things more
consistent". The final resource ordering of Puppet resources will be
consistent every run since the 2.7.0 release. There are no degenerate
cases that I am aware of. But as Adam says some people care, some people
don't.

Regards

James Turnbull

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