Not sure what is 'best practice', but maybe this will help a little. Please keep in mind, I'm new to puppet too.
You might look at: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#available-metaparameters specifically require and before Possibly in the autofs class, resources might require => Class[nsswitch] and resources in nsswitch might require => Class[network] You might use variables to convey the specifics to these more general classes node 'somenode' { $nsswitch_use_nis = "true" $network_use_dhcp = "true" include network include nsswitch include autofs } On Sep 24, 10:52 am, Dan Bode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a best practices question. > > I have 3 classes that have to be run in a certain order. > > dhcp network must be run before nis which must be run before autofs. > > Originally, I was calling these functions from my workstation class, > and assuming that the include statements would be run in order. Then I > tried nesting the includes in the actual class (autofs includes nis, > etc.) > > Things are still not executing in the order that I wanted. > > Do I have to include things, then set requires to work between the two > objects? Is there something that I am missing. > > thanks, > > Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
