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  2. PUP-7969

debug message for notify relationship is inaccurate - should be 'notifies' not 'subscribes'

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Normal
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • PUP 5.4.0
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      Having a resource A that notifies another resource B (notify => File['B']) results in a debug log message saying notifies to File['B'].

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      Having a resource A that notifies another resource B ( notify => File ['B'] ) results in a debug log message saying notifies to File ['B'] .
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    Description

      When a resource subscribes to another resource, the debug output is as you might expect. Given:

      class foo {
        exec { 'notify test':
          command => '/usr/bin/true',
          refreshonly => true,
        }
      }
       
      class test {
        include foo
        exec { 'test':
          command => '/usr/bin/true',
          subscribe => Class['foo'],
        }
      }
       
      include test
      

      This debug line is logged:

      Debug: /Stage[main]/Test/Exec[test]/subscribe: subscribes to Class[Foo]
      

      All good so far. But if I have a notify, I get the same line. I.e., given:

          notify => Class['foo'],
      

      I get:

      Debug: /Stage[main]/Test/Exec[test]/notify: subscribes to Class[Foo]
      

      This line should read "notifies Class[Foo]", not "subscribes to Class[Foo]".

      This is important because this aspect of puppet is already hard enough to understand without inaccurate relationship reporting between resources. In puppet it is a very different thing to say something subscribes to another thing vs notifies it.

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            moses Moses Mendoza
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