[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#498284: puppet: initscript ignore /etc/default/puppet

Fri Oct 24 10:55:15 UTC 2008

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:59:15AM +0100, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Another reason for obeying START is when you do an update of puppet
> package.  If it doesn't obey START it will run puppet and possibly
> apply a bunch of changes to a server.   I'm paranoid and on production
> systems _always_ run puppet in --noop mode before running live. 

invoke-rc.d takes care of this situation.  If puppet isn't using this
mechanism, then that's a bug.

- Matt