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Luke Kanies  
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 More options May 28 2008, 4:05 pm
From: Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 14:05:13 -0600
Local: Wed, May 28 2008 4:05 pm
Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppet thinks yum fails when it doesn't
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On May 28, 2008, at 1:56 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 19:28 -0500, Luke Kanies wrote:
>> That is, if the provider has been prefetched, then those prefetched
>> values will be in that hash, or if the provider supports flushing,
>> then the values will usually get set in that hash and flushed to disk
>> at the end.

>> This is part of the API that has grown up informally and needs to be
>> made a more official part of the API, since it's getting a bit messy.
>> Of course, some classes might not ever use it (e.g., users and groups
>> just directly run commands, so they don't use 'flush', and they might
>> never use 'prefetch').

> My confusion mostly comes from the following specific to the yum/rpm
> provider:

>      * the yum provider is a child of the rpm provider
>      * the rpm provider has a 'instances' method that returns info
>        about currently installed packages
>      * the yum provider overrides 'prefetch', but calls 'super' in the
>        overridden prefetch
>      * even though, the @property_hash in yum provider instances for
>        installed packages is empty

> It shouldn't be empty, right ?

Based on that, I agree that it shouldn't be empty, so count me into  
the confused group.

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