Hey, this is sort of hijacking the thread, so if need be, please, I can
start another thread for it, but could someone explain the code from the
OP here. I feel like this is sort of the next step in puppet
functionality that I need to learn (I'm still new).
I'll start by pointing out three things that tripped me up:
1. I've read about the difference between Package (capitalized), and
package (lowercase), but in practice I don't understand it.
2. In the Package { require => Class['yum::client']}, why isn't there a
name?
3. 'yum::client' is a reference to a nested class, right? So what are
the use cases for nested classes? I'm wondering if maybe I should/could
be taking advantage of this to clean up my code a bit.
Thanks,
Chris
On 07/01/2010 08:56 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
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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