[katello-devel] Keeping our installer "stable"

[Lukas Zapletal]

Hey,

I noticed today that our installer is not "stable" anymore (not sure the
proper wording from the Puppet world). Basically, all subsequent
executions with the same parameters should not do any configuration
changes - Puppet should only check that everything is deployed properly
and return immediately (in 1-3 seconds).

Currently nightly is trying to reconfigure foreman and do several other
things. So the rule of thumb here is:

When you are working on installer, make sure it works correctly AND try
to run it several times with the same parameters - it should not do
anything.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=889488

I will fix this bug next year, but keep this in mind please. I have been
refactoring a LOT of Puppet code some time ago to make it "stable".

Thanks

-- 
Later,

 Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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