puppet-lint-appends-check

A puppet-lint plugin to check that the append (+=) operator is unused.

$ gem install puppet-lint-appends-check

gem 'puppet-lint-appends-check', :require => false

Use of the append operator can lead to unexpected behavior.

$ssh_users = ['myself', 'someone']

class test {
  $ssh_users += ['someone_else']
}

$ssh_users = ['myself', 'someone', 'someone_else']

# OR
$ssh_users = hiera('ssh_users')

There is not one way to properly fix this type of style error, so running puppet-lint's fix feature will not have any effect.

To disable this check, you can add --no-appends-check to your puppet-lint command line.

$ puppet-lint --no-appends-check path/to/file.pp

Alternatively, if you’re calling puppet-lint via the Rake task, you should insert the following line to your Rakefile.

PuppetLint.configuration.send('disable_appends')

This plugin was originally authored by Puppet Inc. The maintainer preferred that Puppet Community take ownership of the module for future improvement and maintenance. Existing pull requests and issues were transferred over, please fork and continue to contribute here instead of Puppet Inc.

This gem is licensed under the Apache-2 license.

To make a new release, please do:

• update the version in the gemspec file
• Install gems with bundle install --with release --path .vendor
• generate the changelog with bundle exec rake changelog
• Check if the new version matches the closed issues/PRs in the changelog
• Create a PR with it
• After it got merged, push a tag. GitHub actions will do the actual release to rubygems and GitHub Packages