Hi guys, As Peter points out, this thread is old. Sorry I dropped the ball, I plan on integrating feedback and getting this updated this weekend.
--Paul On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch> wrote: > > Hi > > so I took again a look a this rather old thread, as I tried to implement > things as I thought I have understood them. > >>>> good idea! Currently I have all site specific stuff in one big module, >>>> but like that I might be able to organize it again in modules per each >>>> site specific module adaptions. Question: Is autoloading looking in >>>> both module directories? so if it's not found in the module in one >>>> module directory it's still looking in the other one? I assume so, but >>>> as I haven't used it yet I better ask... ;) >>> >>> modulepath option must be set in your puppet.conf file. >> >> yeah, that for sure. But so I assume it looks for ssh::client in every >> ssh module it can find in the different modulepaths. > > After this discussion I thought that modules can be scattered amongst > the various module paths. But this doesn't seem to be the case. At least > my experience shows that puppet simply respects the classes of a module > it founds in the first location, all the classes in a second location > get ignored. > > So the best practices would be to have 2 module paths, one with the > public modules and one module path with the site-specific module - > extensions, prefixed with site? so something like: > > modules/public/apache <- public apache module > modules/site/site-apache <- site specific implementations of apache > > To throw up the question: > > Wouldn't it be nicer if puppet would collect a module's classes from all > module pathes? It would at least make my site specific module changes > look a bit nicer and I still wouldn't have to mix these. However I see > all the problems coming up with this solution. I'm just curious what > other people think. > > cheers pete > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
