On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Luke Kanies <l...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch>
>> wrote:
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>>>>> In this module, if you use the following orginization puppet will
>>>>> autoload everything:
>>>>>
>>>>> manifests/init.pp contains class apache { }
>>>>> manifests/disable.pp contains class apache::disable inherits apache {}
>>>>> manifests/virtualhost.pp contains define apache::virtualhost(){}
>>>>
>>>> Really? Are you serious???. Why is puppet dictating to me that it will
>>>> only autoload classes if I have a class named module::disable,
>>>> module::virtualhost? Who's idea was that and why? This seems awfully
>>>> arbitrary.
>>>
>>> on what other basis should puppet then autoload classes/defines?
>>
>> Let me try this again.
>>
>> Your saying that unless my module contains a class specifically called
>> $module::disable.pp (and therefore a filed called 'disable.pp' in
>> manifests), then puppet will not autoload anything? I just got it to
>> work without such a class in a module. All I had to do was throw a
>> bunch of files in $module/manifests/, include $module::something and
>> it worked.
>>
>> Where is this documented?
>
> Just to be more clear:
>
> Nowhere does Puppet require that you have those files specifically.
>
> However, *if* you want Puppet to autoload a class named '$module::foo', then
> that class must either be in the module's init.pp file or in a class named
> 'foo.pp' in that module's 'manifests' directory.
>
> There was clearly some confusion on specificity here - an example was being
> used, but it wasn't meant to say that all classes had to look like that.*whew* Thanks. -- 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.
