cfengine3 packages issue

output

    info: Using command line specified bundlesequence
   error: Invalid or missing arguments in package_module body 'apt_get':  query_installed_ifelapsed = -678 query_updates_ifelapsed = -678
   error: New package promise failed sanity check.
   error: Invalid or missing arguments in package_module body 'apt_get':  query_installed_ifelapsed = -678 query_updates_ifelapsed = -678
   error: New package promise failed sanity check.
   error: Invalid or missing arguments in package_module body 'apt_get':  query_installed_ifelapsed = -678 query_updates_ifelapsed = -678
   error: New package promise failed sanity check.

pkg

#!/bin/env -S cf-agent --inform --bundlesequence sudo --no-lock

body common control
{
  inputs => { "${sys.libdir}/stdlib.cf" };
}

bundle agent sudo
{
  packages:
    "sudo"
      policy => "present",
      version => "latest",
      package_module => apt_get,
      comment => "Install latest sudo";
}

There are some bits in body common control that your missing, see (https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/blob/81ffabdd8022507ec924041bb7f94a06e20901a4/promises.cf.in#L86-L111). Also you're missing the defaults set in def.cf here (https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/blob/81ffabdd8022507ec924041bb7f94a06e20901a4/controls/def.cf#L186-L193) (that's where the stdlib gets the values for those settings (https://github.com/cfengine/masterfiles/blob/81ffabdd8022507ec924041bb7f94a06e20901a4/lib/packages.cf#L42-L43) it's complaining about from.

@nickanderson. Thank you for reply.

I managed to fixit by including def.cf, tough it wasn't intuitive as that wasn't mentioned anywhere (book, docs) etc.... Then again, I was using cfengine in a bit non-standard way :D

Yes, indeed it can be a bit difficult to tease out the differences between whats in the MPF and whats in core.

Glad you found and fixed it. Just hop in to chat or the mailing list/forum and holler if you run into tohter things.

Alwasy interested to know the non-standard ways in which people are using CFEngine.