On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:32:26AM +0200, Arnau Bria wrote: > I don't remember from where I took the idea... but seems that I chose > wrong place :-) What do you recommend me? any doc to follow?
Unfortunately, I don't think there is great documentation out there; the
core development team is too busy and so are most of the users.
Documentation lags behind. I'd love to add better documentation to
Puppet but I have a very busy and stressful job, so I fail too. But in
any case...
> > the included class had better be in the file found by the
> > autoloader). I hope that's a little clearer.
>
> Reading your answer (and if I thought a little more about it before), my
> question
> could be answered by myself. As you say import "inserts" code, so
> having 2 diff defaults in 2 diff sites does not make much sense, or does not
> behave as I wish.
Great! Now that you understand better how imports and includes work,
you're answering your own questions. I bet you can work out a better
way of laying out your manifests for yourself.
The best advice I can give you is to work with the way puppet
module/class autoloading works, not against it.
>
> If I redefine File defaults in comuting_bacula (in the class, not
> module) it's evaluted and it's more important:
>
> class computing_bacula {
> File { mode => 755 }
> }
> File { 'kaka' }
>
> on client:
> notice: /Stage[main]/Computing_bacula/File[kaka]/mode: mode changed '666' to
> '755'
>
>
> So class defaults "are more important" than site dfaults.
If there is a conflict between an already declared default and a new
default, the new default wins. If there is no conflict, they are added
together. If you go back to my example, I set a default of "ensure =
file" at the top level. Because none of the later defaults had an
"ensure" parameter, all files inherited that default. I also set "mode
= 750" at the top level, but in some places I later declared "mode"
again. In such cases, the declaration in the most immediate scope
always wins.
--
Bruce
What would Edward Woodward do?
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