On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:16 AM, ncantor <ncan...@gmail.com> wrote: > For some reason, puppet is attempting to install ruby-enterprise on > all my puppet clients.
You told puppet to do so. =) I don't mean to be a jerk, but this really is the simple answer. > The only reason I can find for this behaviour > is that I've defined a package to install ruby-enterprise. However, by > default, the package isn't called by anything. Unless you put the declaration inside of a defined resource type, or a class, then it will be included in the configuration catalog of all nodes. In this case, the package has been declared at top scope. > In order to get the package to only install on the systems that I > wanted to have it, I had to move it from a general package definition > to be inside a class. Is this normal behaviour? Yep, a class is a collection and intended to bundle together a set of resources into something you can easily add or remove from nodes. This is generally called node classification as in "I've classified this node as a web server." or "This node is classified as a ruby-enterprise node." Nodes may have many classes. Hope this helps, -- Jeff McCune http://www.puppetlabs.com/ -- 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.
