Thanks. I tried that and it doesn't work
That said, I redid it with "require" instead of "before" and it seems
to work now.
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Thanks,
Allan Marcus
505-667-5666
On Sep 17, 2009, at 7:24 AM, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sep 16, 4:55 pm, Allan Marcus <al...@lanl.gov> wrote:
>
>> warning: Configuration could not be instantiated: Could not find
>> dependent Pkgdmg_install[Office2008-1211UpdateEN.dmg] for
>> Package[Office2008-1220UpdateEN.dmg] at /var/puppet/environments/
>> development/modules/lanl-baseline/manifests/definitions/
>> pkg_install.pp:
>> 31; using cached catalog
>>
>> pkgdmg_install is a definition that looks like this:
>>
>> {
>> $sourcedir_real = $sourcedir ? {
>> false => "http://puppet.lanl.gov";,
>> default => $sourcedir
>> }
>> $dirpath_real = $dirpath ? {
>> false => "",
>> default => $dirpath
>> }
>> package { $name:
>> ensure => installed,
>> provider => pkgdmg,
>> source => "$sourcedir_real/${dirpath_real}${name}"
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> what simple little stupid thing am I missing?
>
> I don't think puppet supports dependencies between defined type
> invocations -- at least, not the way you seem to expect. This makes
> sense to me when I consider that although defined types look a lot
> like classes, they are not singletons and they function essentially as
> macros. If you look closely at your error message, in fact, you will
> see that the relationship that puppet cannot satisfy has a Package
> resource at one end, even though you did not explicitly specify such a
> relationship. Puppet is doing its best for you, but what you're
> asking cannot be satisfied in its model.
>
> I think you can solve your problem by making the targets of your
> relationships be the appropriate Package resources. For example:
>
> pkgdmg_install { "Office2008-1220UpdateEN.dmg":
> alias => ms_office_sp2,
> dirpath => "iasw/msoffice/",
> before => Package["Office2008-1211UpdateEN.dmg"]
> }
>
> That does rely a bit on knowledge of the implementation of
> pkgdmg_install. If you don't like that (and perhaps you shouldn't),
> or if that suggestion doesn't work, then the next refinement would be
> to update the definition to accept an optional "before-package" (or
> similarly named) parameter, which you then use to directly set the
> Package - Package dependency, instead of using the 'before' parameter
> on the defined type.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> John
> >
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