On Jan 11, 6:03 am, Sébastien Prud'homme
<sebastien.prudho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does someone know if it's a bug or if i'm doing things the wrong way?
As Sliviu explained, you're doing things the wrong way. What he gave
you resolve your errors, but it is focused on how to get the virtual
package declaration to work. Depending on what you're trying to
accomplish, however, a virtual declaration may be a sub-optimal
approach to begin with.
I'm inferring that you want a define that may be called multiple
times, with every invocation needing to declare the same one resource
(among other things). In Puppet, you can achieve this directly with
classes -- involving virtual resources only complicates matters.
Thus, within the limited scope of the example, this solution will
achieve exactly the same result (effect of mydefine2) as Sliviu's
example:
class clspackage {
package { postfix: }
}
define mydefine1 {
include clspackage
}
define mydefine2 {
mydefine1 { $name: }
}
In general, although virtual resources seem cool, they don't do as
much as Puppet newcomers seem to think they do. I'm unaware of any
problem whose solution *requires* their use, and people seem inclined
to apply them to situations where they aren't helpful. YMMV.
John
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