This also vexes me, I also would love to use 'all_tags', but it's not consistent. The issues is best described in the following bug, I believe:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3049 On Jun 30, 10:59 am, Dan Carley <dan.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 June 2010 18:40, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > Can someone point me in the right direction here. I'm trying to > > create an erb template for my /etc/hosts file, so that when executed, > > it populates the /etc/hosts file only with entries that are tag > > relevant. For instance, if a server is tagged apache, only the apache > > tagged entries would be populated into the /etc/hosts file. Thanks in > > advance for you help. > > This is possible with `if all_tags.include?("<sometag>")`. > > But, and a big but, it is highly dependent on the order which your modules > are compiled[0]. It will prove unreliable if your Apache module happens to > be `included` after the module which is creating the templated hosts file. > For this reason it will introduce extra use complexity into your modules and > most people will probably recommend that you use facts instead. > > It happens to be a bit of a bug bear of mine because it is otherwise quite a > useful feature that precludes the mess of populating additional facts. The > conundrum is similar to a recent thread[1] entitled "do X if package Y is > installed". > > [0] That is "compiled" by the puppetmaster. Not "executed" by the puppet > client. > [1]http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/b037... -- 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.
