Rudder

I've looked at this Pull Request, and I see that it adds a rudder_generic package_method to our stdlib (by the way, I think this would be better named generic_individual, so then we could contribute it back to CFEngine).

However, at the moment, the Pull Request just adds this body, but never uses it. I think you should rework all the Techniques that use local package_methods to use this one instead. In the mean time, I'd rather not merge a commit that adds code that's not used, seeing as we are trying to stabilize the code currently.

Any news for this issue ?

NicoC, what did you think about my feedback on this? I'd like to at least see the name of the body changed, and hopefully actually use it from Techniques too.

Oops, wrong Nico.

Ha, sorry i didn't see the feedback
I was more planning to do it as a two way upgrade:
- create the body
- only then create new versions of techniques using it

otherwise the PR might get huge, and desynced with new versions of Technique coming up

• There is no point introducing a body package_method if we're not going to use it
• What is pressing here is getting a central package_method to fix bugs in, in particular for bug #3855. So, let's start by creating the central package_method, and using it in the rpmPackageInstallation and aptPackageInstallation techniques.

Go go go!

Grabbin' this

Taking NCH's PR as a reference

Old package methods are now deprecated, closing.