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authorDan Bode <dan@puppetlabs.com>2012-08-13 18:52:56 -0700
committerDan Bode <dan@puppetlabs.com>2012-08-13 18:52:56 -0700
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Add better docs about duplicate resource failures
This commit adds better inline documentation explaining how replicate resource definitions can occur if the resource exists and does not have matching parameters.
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-rw-r--r--lib/puppet/parser/functions/ensure_resource.rb5
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diff --git a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/ensure_resource.rb b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/ensure_resource.rb
index 8f9eadf..3205b9b 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/parser/functions/ensure_resource.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/parser/functions/ensure_resource.rb
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ resource.
This example only creates the resource if it does not already exist:
ensure_resource('user, 'dan', {'ensure' => 'present' })
+
+If the resource already exists but does not match the specified parameters,
+this function will attempt to recreate the resource leading to a duplicate
+resource definition error.
+
ENDOFDOC
) do |vals|
type, title, params = vals