Darn iPhone. Requiring a class will make puppet consider an entire class of resources a dependency. So in the example you quoted, the squid class would be executed before the apache service.
It allows abstraction over requiring individual resources, that's all. Sent from my iPhone On 25 Oct 2009, at 06:59, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can someone tell me what a require => Class actually does? The > documentation on this really isn't clear. > > The language tutorial at > http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial says: > > "Like resources, you can also create relationships with classes like > so: > > class apache { > service { "apache": require => Class["squid"] } > } > The above uses the require metaparameter to make the apache class > dependent on the squid class." > > What does that mean? Does that mean that the squid class has to be > just available, or FULLY implemented and completed before the apache > class??? > > Three days and I am still dicking around with dependancy hell. > > Doug. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
