On 18/04/2010, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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