On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Jim Bala <usr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Mayank wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to manage some hosts using a single puppetmaster. I
>> don't know why but puppet on clients seems to be executing the recipes
>> hosted on puppetmaster in a random order which is breaking apart
>> dependencies and resulting in a failed run of puppet for first time.
>> If I do multiple run of puppet thru puppetd --test, everything gets
>> installed and configured properly. However it's very rare that on
>> first run I can see puppet managing the configuration and installation
>> without fail.
>> Is there any way I can bring about serial execution of puppet
>> recipes. What I mean by serial execution is that suppose I've a
>> site.pp with following content:
>>
>> package {"ruby-devel": ensure=>latest}
>> package {"rubygems": ensure=>latest}
>> exec {"install-mysql-gem":
>> command=>'gem install mysql',
>> path=>"/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin",
>> require=>[ Package["ruby-devel"], Package["rubygems"]]
>> }
>>
>> Now in many cases puppet tries to execute Exec["install-mysql-gem"]
>> before Package["ruby-devel"] or Package["rubygems"] or both.
>>
>> Is there a way that I can ensure that puppet renders the file in order
>> the script is written ?
>>
>> BTW I'm using CentOS 5.4 with puppet-server-0.24.5-1.el5 and
>> puppet-0.24.5-1.el5.
Keep at it. You'll get it all working with requires=> eventually. It
will take forever, your head will hurt, and by the time your done,
you'll have a god-aweful dependency mess that will make you totally
afraid to touch any of it ever again, but you'll get it eventually if
you keep at it! I did!
Doug.
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