[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#509566:

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

On Thu, January 8, 2009 14:10, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>
>>> Setting waitforcert to "5" helps a bit, but it is still a problem
>>> IMO.

>> Your suggestions are all very valid in my opinion, but I think that the
>>  uploaded fix has made the issue not grave anymore. I hope the Puppet
>> maintainers will evaluate your suggestions for including in lenny, but
>> this is now only a normal bug.

> FWIW, I don't agree. I don't find it acceptable to have a
> fresh-installed package writing 2 lines on my syslog every 5 seconds.

Busylooping is obviously wrong, but doing it every 5 seconds is not an
unacceptable burden. It does not load the system significantly. Especially
because you will be using puppetca not long after installing the package
to authorise the host and the message will go away. It's not like this
behaviour occurs permanently, rather it will only be in the bootstrapping
window between installing puppet on a host and acknowledging it on the
puppetmaster.

> Especially since upstream suggests 120s as the default and Debian used
> to not loop at all in the past.

I do not contest that such a change could be useful but the package is in
my opinion in a condition to release.


Thijs