On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Patrick Mohr <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 9:05 PM, christopher floess wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> When declaring a resource, use the lowercase one. When referring to an
> existing resource, use the uppercase one.
>
> 2. In the Package { require => Class['yum::client']}, why isn't there a
> name?
>
> This says take care of the whole yum::client class before installing
> any package. (Technically this is only almost true. There are exceptions.)
Eeeek! What are the exceptions?
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