[CFE-3159] unless is inconsistent when there are unresolved variables - Northern.tech AS

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Because of some mistakes / bugs in the code, we ended up in a place where unless is inconsistent:

This is fine, the promise will be evaluated:

bundle agent main
{
  vars:
    "a"
      string => "value",
      unless => "$(no_such_var)";
}

This is not fine, the promise will cause a fatal error:

bundle agent main
{
  vars:
    "a"
      string => "value",
      unless => isvariable("$(no_such_var)");
}

Based on the discussion in this ticket:

We agreed to keep this error message, for now, but it might be appropriate to remove the error so the 2 cases are consistent in this edge case.

This ticket discusses the bigger problem:

Some users thought it was better to keep this policy not allowed (using fatal error) until that bigger long term change is done.

relates to

CFE-3160 Behavior of if and unless when there are unexpanded variables