On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Michael DeHaan <mich...@puppetlabs.com> > wrote: > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Douglas Garstang > > <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Douglas Garstang < > doug.garst...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Does switching to external nodes require a forklift approach? > >>>> > >>>> The other day, I specified an external node script in puppet.conf, and > >>>> puppet complained about every single node that wasn't handled by the > >>>> external script. It would be nice (and more realistic) to be able to > >>>> cut one node over at a time. Is this possible? > >>> > >>> Absolutely. > >>> My external node script just returns the default config for any node it > >>> can't find a specific config for. > >> > >> That's not going to work. When the node isn't defined as an external > >> node, I want it to use the node manifest file, not a default. If I was > >> going to start using external nodes, some nodes would be external and > >> some nodes would not be external, until they where all converted. It > >> looks like while this was the case, nothing would work. > > > > As I understood things, external nodes is supposed to work as an > > overlay on top of site.pp > > > > Is this not working if you just return an empty list of > > classes/variables for a node? > > > > IIRC this works this way today -- let us know if there's a problem with > it. > > Sorry, I really don't follow you. The external node is specified in > the puppet.conf file. Doesn't that mean ALL nodes are run through > it??? > I believe what Michael is saying is rather than returning *nothing*, you should return an empty node definition with empty parameters/classes. > > Doug > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<puppet-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- nigel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
