[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#529554: onlyif/unless as metaparameters

[Jayen Ashar]

Package: puppet
Version: 0.24.7-2
Severity: wishlist

I'd like to make a rule to remove a dead link.  I'd like to use the file type as follows:
  file {
    "/usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz":
      ensure => absent,
      onlyif => "test -L /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz && (stat -L /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz; [ $? != 0 ])";
  }

instead of the exec type, as I am doing now:
  exec {
    "rm /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz":
      onlyif => "test -L /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz && (stat -L /usr/share/man/man1/x-window-manager.1.gz; [ $? != 0 ])",
      path => "/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin";
  }

This could be doable if onlyif was a metaparameter.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686-bigmem
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                3.102             Add and remove users and groups
ii  facter                 1.3.5-1           a library for retrieving facts fro
ii  libopenssl-ruby        1.0.0+ruby1.8.2-1 OpenSSL interface for Ruby
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8      1.4.1-7           Interface of shadow password for R
ii  libxmlrpc-ruby         1.8.2-1           XML-RPC support for Ruby
ii  lsb-base               3.1-23.2etch1     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  ruby                   1.8.2-1           An interpreter of object-oriented 

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
pn  libaugeas-ruby1.8             <none>     (no description available)
ii  rdoc                          1.8.2-1    Generate documentation from ruby s

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