bundle change not getting triggered by negated group section

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i'm using bcfg2 to manage monit. based on group membership, i have it creating various files in /etc/monit/monit.d. there is one file which corresponds to a service that should be running if the machine is using bare drives, but not if it's using a hardware raid array (groups 'aacraid' or 'megaraid') in my setup.

the section of the bundle that corresponds to this is as follows:

    <Group name='basic'>
	    <ConfigFile name='/etc/monit/monit.d/ssh.conf' />
	    <ConfigFile name='/etc/monit/monit.d/sysklogd.conf' />
	    <ConfigFile name='/etc/monit/monit.d/ntpd.conf' />
	    <ConfigFile name='/etc/monit/monit.d/cron.conf' />
	    <Group name='aacraid' negate='true' >
	      <Group name='megaraid' negate='true' >
    	        <ConfigFile name='/etc/monit/monit.d/smartmontools.conf' />
  	      </Group>
	    </Group>
	  </Group>

i also have an action which clears out /etc/monit/monit.d whenever the bundle gets updated.

however, when i add either 'megaraid' or 'aacraid' to a host's profile group and then re-run bcfg2, bundle modification doesn't get triggered, and the file does not get removed. however, if i manually clobber one of the files in that directory, the bundle is updated and things go as they should (i.e. smartmontools.conf does not get created).

am i misunderstanding bundle modification triggers, or is this actually a bug?

[desai]

How are you specifying the action?

[desai]

From the traces you posted, I think this you need to set the action to run always, at least if you plan to change things in the .d directory. We should probably come up with a better solution for this, but setting when='always' is the most robust way to do things for now.