Re: negated installable classes in clauses are just plain wrong... was Re: conditionals in editfiles are buggy/inconsistent with alerts

Hi, please see my comments below...
On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:11 PM, SiliconSlick wrote:
> Howdy again,
>
> I tried to send a patch to this list in February
> but it bounced due to taking too long to get to
> the mailhost.  Not sure what's up with that.  In any
> case, I had posted a fix to the SourceForge and I'm
> faily certain Mark got CC's, so I didn't sweat it.
Hmm, maybe greylisting on the cfengine.org mail server?  I'll leave  
that to Mark.

>
>
> However, since this is still broken, I'll try again.
>
> Here, in short, is the problem.
Wow, I would hate to see the long version! ;)

>
>
> Negated installable classes are treated differently
> than other classes depending upon the actionsequence
> being processed.

[...]

>
>
> 1) explain to me what I'm not understanding and
>   why the current behavior is not a bug/incorrect
I'll try to look into this report soon and let you know if I can  
reproduce your results.  Thanks for the test case, that should help  
speed things along.
>

> [...]

> It's a bit frustrating at this point
> that I'm either not getting it or I'm not convincing
> others of the, not inconsequential, problem.[*]
>
> Thanks,
>
> jack/Slick
>
> [*] I expect such from Redhat[**] but thought I'd have
>    better luck here
>
> [**] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=146291
>     posted (along with a fix), more than 3 years ago...
>     still broken

I'm not sure what your feelings about RedHat in general have to do  
with this.  Also, the bug report you link to is for system-config- 
network on RHEL-5 -- a quick glance at the comments doesn't reveal  
anything about cfengine; are you sure this is the correct bug?

-Jeff

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