On 01/31/2010 01:44 PM, Dan Bode wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Doug Warner <d...@warner.fm > <mailto:d...@warner.fm>> wrote: > > Running puppet 0.24.8, I'd like to make Puppet be indifferent/ignore > whether a > package is installed or not. The hangup here is that I include a > class that > installs the package, so I through to make a class that inherits > that and > changes ensure => undef, but this doesn't seem to work. I have > something like > this: > > > what you are describing below works: including an inherited class > together with its parent and expecting the resources to be overridden > correctly. > > I think the problem is that the default behavior for package when ensure > => undef is for it to install the package. Changing this behavior could > be an interesting feature request. > > you could use if(defined(Class['child'])) in the parent to determine if > the package resource should be declared. This is pretty hacky though, I > would consider remodeling your base class instead since this package > resource does not belong there.
I forgot to mention that I've tried "ensure => absent" in my child class but
the package still seems to get installed.
This is really a hack to get this package excluded temporarily while we work
out a packaging bug, so I don't mind hacks like you suggested.
Maybe the problem is that my example was too simplistic? My actually classes
have the "disabled" child class as a 3rd-level child, like so:
class PkgGroup {}
class PkgGroup::InstallPkg inherits PkgGroup {
package { coolpkg: ensure => latest, }
}
class PkgGroup::InstallPkg::disabled inherits PkgGroup::InstallPkg {
Package['coolpkg'] { ensure => absent, }
}
-Doug
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