I spent a few minutes playing with stages as well and they seem like a great
solution to certain problems. Will there be more documentation made available
about how to use stages after final release? All I'm familiar with is what's in
the changelog.
--Ryan
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Garstang" <doug.garst...@gmail.com>
> To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:47:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Installing a module FIRST
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Avi Miller <avi.mil...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey Douglas
> >
> > Douglas Garstang wrote:
> >>
> >> How can I guarantee that all components of the LDAP client module
> >> get
> >> installed before ANY components of any other module?
> >
> > Take a look at the new Run Stages[1] functionality in Puppet 2.6.
> > Run stages
> > would allow you to specify that the LDAP class has to run first
> > before any
> > other module is actioned.
>
> So... the release notes have an example:
>
> class yum { ... }
> class redhat {
> ...
> class { yum: stage => pre }
> }
>
> followed by the statement:
> "Note that we’re using the new parameterized classes here – this is
> necessary because of the class-level limitations of Run Stages. These
> limitations are present because of the complication of trying to
> untangle resource dependencies across stage boundaries if we allowed
> arbitrary resources to specify stages."
>
> Any idea what that means?
>
> Doug.
>
>
> "
>
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