Cool - that would work. Thanks!
On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:55 PM, Nan Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:18 AM, loki77 <lok...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, I'm looking for a way to have puppet kick off an upgrade of my
>> companies software, but only when it's somehow 'told' to. In cfengine
>> you can provide classes from the command line (such as upgrade_code)
>> and then have parts of the policy only work if those classes are
>> defined. Is there anyway to do something similar in puppet? At first
>> I thought this was what tags were for, since they can be defined from
>> the command line when running puppetd - but it looks like tagged
>> resources are always ran, and that when tags are set they are the ONLY
>> thing that is run, so that doesn't quite work for what I'm trying to
>> do.
>
> You can use implicit tags, all resource in a class should be tagged by
> that class name. So if you have a class called foo, you should be able
> to use tag foo to apply them.
>
> If you want to perform this conditionally, you can also use
> environment variables to set custom facts and use those facts in your
> puppet manifests to include classes resource on the fly.
>
> FACTER_install_foo=true; export FACTER_install_foo
> FACTER_install_bar=true; export FACTER_install_bar
>
> Bacause "FACTER_" will be stripped off, in your puppet manifest:
> if $install_foo {
> include foo
> ...
> }
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nan
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