Re: actionsequence suggestion

[John Borwick]

Ed Brown wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 23:14, Tim Nelson wrote:
[snip]
> > 1.      Does not encourage sequential thinking (as this is not cfenginely)
> > 2.      Allows sequential sequences where necessary
> > 3.      Uses something more user-friendly than the current actionsequence
> >         solutions to these problems.
[snip]
> Also no mention was made of backwards compatibility.
[snip]

Perhaps there could be some way to indicate that "order does not matter" 
for a certain group of commands.  Not that this particular solution 
would be great, but what about something like (not real code):

packages:
  "net-snmp" elsedefine=no_rpm_net_snmp

shellcommands:
  no_rpm_net_snmp::
    "up2date net-snmp"

[ORDERING=OFF]
copy:
  /to from=/somewhere/else

[ORDERING=ON]
  /etc/snmp from=/proto/etc/snmp


So all the stuff inside the "unordered" area can be run whenever (e.g. 
in many separate threads), but the rest of the file is run according to 
actionsequence.

Yours,
John
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           John Borwick
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