On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Dan Carley <dan.car...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 July 2010 00:32, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If I have a package { "foo": ensure => installed; require => something
>> } in a module, AND I also have a Package { require =>
>> Class['yum::client']} in site.pp, what happens in the module? Does the
>> package in the module require both 'something' and the yum::client
>> class, or does the fact I specified a package{} with a require in the
>> module mean that only the yum::client class is required?
>
> The latter will happen. The default will be replaced by the explicit
> statement in package{"foo"}. You might want to look into plusignment (+>) to
> do this, but there are some caveats to it's usage. Such as feature #2825.
Yeah. You sort of have to be careful. I had a Package {} resource
defined in site.pp, and then in various modules where needed, I had
more Package defaults. I've only just realised (I must have gotten
lucky) that the one in site.pp was being skipped because of the local
modules ones.
Doug
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