well, forget what I said.. It seems that I have misunderstood the variable
scope...
I will try to do as you suggest.
Thanks!
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Gustavo Soares <gustavosoa...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, Michael, thank you for your reply.
>
> What I mean about "dynamic variables" is:
>
> let's say that I have a variable like *$log_path = "/var/log/$site" *to
> specify the log path for different applications
> that run on the same host. Thus, depending on the value of $site
> variable, the $log_path variable will be different.
>
> If I put that in a class, it will be evaluated for the first value of $site
> called, right? or am I missing something?
>
> I hope, that I could clarify. :)
>
> Gus
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Michael Gliwinski <
> michael.gliwin...@henderson-group.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 25 Mar 2010 11:48:44 Gustavo Soares wrote:
>> > I have thought of using qualified variables, but i think that won't work
>> > inside a tempalte, right? Or can I do <%= class::variable %> ?
>>
>> It will but you have to use <%= scope.lookup('class::variable') %> (note,
>> typing from memory, to be sure check the puppet templating page on the
>> wiki,
>> there is an example there).
>>
>> > And I guess that if I am using dynamic variables, once I include the it
>> > will be evaluated only once, right?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by dynamic variables, but the class is indeed
>> evaluated only once (and therefore variables are bound only once IIUC),
>> even
>> though it is included from a define which may be declared (i.e. 'called'?)
>> multiple times.
>>
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