On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Bostjan Skufca <bostjan.sku...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I believed that defaults could only be set for global scope. Funny:)
>
> Thank you both for your hints!
>
I actually thought this too, but it's for the current and inherited scopes
it seems.
Moving to declaring File defaults in each class has made my manifests *so*
much more readable....
>
> b.
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2:58 am, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Bostjan Skufca <
> bostjan.sku...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi!
> >
> > > Does anybody know, if resources can be inherited?
> >
> > > Example:
> >
> > > I would like to define three files with owner=root and group=bin and
> > > mode=754.
> > > To do that you can write:
> > > file { "file1":
> > > owner=root,
> > > group=bin,
> > > mode=754,
> > > }
> > > file { "file2":
> > > owner=root,
> > > group=bin,
> > > mode=754,
> > > }
> > > file { "file3":
> > > owner=root,
> > > group=bin,
> > > mode=754,
> > > }
> >
> > > As you can see there is a bit of redundancy there.
> >
> > You should do this with setting resource defaults in the current scope
> > instead like:
> >
> > File { ensure => file, owner => root, group => bin, mode => 0754, }
> >
> > file { ["file1", "file2", "file3"]: }
> >
> > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#resource-d...
> >
> >
> >
> > > The more elegant way would be something like this (fictive code!):
> >
> > > file_prototype {
> > > owner=root,
> > > group=bin,
> > > mode=754,
> > > }
> > > file { "file1": include file_prototype, }
> > > file { "file2": include file_prototype, }
> > > file { "file3": include file_prototype, }
> >
> > > Does something similar to code above exists in puppet? Or any
> > > workaround that does similar trick?
> >
> > > Thank you,
> > > b.
> >
> > --
> > Nigel Kersten
> > nig...@google.com
> > System Administrator
> > Google Inc.
> >
>
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Nigel Kersten
nig...@google.com
System Administrator
Google Inc.
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