Method failed in some repairs, how to ignore this error?

[Andreas K]

Hello,

I want to use the "usebundle" statment to call another bundle (the name is "k_copy_m"). This bundle has some file promises, which might be unable to be repaired, because the source file does not exist. Cfengine is reporting an error in that case:

2014-09-24T06:20:17+0200    error: /default/getvar/methods/'any'[1]: Method 'k_copy_m' failed in some repairs

If I just use a file promise in a bundle to copy files, usually no error is reported if the file cannot be copied. It will just be skipped.

I do not want to receive this error when encapsulating the file promise in a bundle called by "usebundle".

Is there any approach or setting to avoid this behavior?

Thanks for any suggestions, Andreas.

[Brian Bennett]

This will depend on the location of the source files. If the source files are local you can constrain the promise with ifvarclass => fileexists().

E.g.:

files:

  "/etc/motd"

    copy_from => cp("/tmp/motd")

    ifvarclass => fileexists("/tmp/motd");

Then the promise will only be evaluated if your source file exists.

I did some looking around the docs but didn't find anything that would work easily if the source files are copied over the network.

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[Andreas K]

Yes, the source file is on the network.

The question is, why is the warning or information (source file does not exist on server) raised to an error when passing the "usebundle"?

I think any errors should be managed / reported in the called bundle, not in the calling one...

Andreas

[Ivan Kurnosov]

Hi,

it's exactly the same issue I experience with package promises.

I asked an additional question at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/help-cfengine/hZSTkfC7j0M and filed a bug https://dev.cfengine.com/issues/6885