I figured it out I think by inheriting package::stable and then using the
Package resource (note cap P) to override it.

Thx!

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Christopher Johnston <chjoh...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Say I have two classes:
>
> > package::stable  -- installs a specific version of a pkg
> > package::devel   -- installs the latest version in the repo
>
> > The class package::stable would be specific for 90% of my machines in my
> > environment, but on occasion we have to override the package version we
> want
> > to install to grab the latest version.  Is there a way to "disable" the
> > package::stable class if say package::devel is assigned to a node?
>
> I may be misunderstanding, but it sounds like package::devel should be
> inheriting from package::stable and overriding the ensure type (to latest
> instead of present).  If you do that, you don't need to disable
> package::stable.
>
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