On Mar 2, 10:53 pm, Daniel Piddock <dgp-g...@corefiling.co.uk> wrote:
> On 02/03/11 04:31, russell.fulton wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am having a fight with a postgressql nodule:
>
> > It defines:
>
> > class postgresql::base {
>
> > package {"postgresql":
> > ensure => present,
> > notify => undef,
> > }
> > .......
>
> > and later we have a class that inherits the base class:
>
> > class postgresql::rhe::v8-4 inherits postgresql::base {
>
> > $data_dir = $postgresql_data_dir ? {
> > "" => "/var/lib/postgresql",
> > default => $postgresql_data_dir,
> > }
>
> > package {[
> > "postgresql84",
> > "postgresql84-server",
> > ]:
> > ensure => present,
> > }
>
> > How can I get puppet to ignore the package definition in the 'base'
> > class?
>
> A slightly different tactic is to change the name of previously declared
> package:
>
> class postgresql::rhe::v8-4 inherits postgresql::base {
> ....
> Package['postgresql'] {
> name => 'postgresql84',
> }
> package { 'postgresql84-server':
> ensure => present,
> }
>
> }
>
> This way if you have any external classes putting a dependency on
> Package['postgresql'] they don't get 'broken'.
>
This worked nicely! I had tried this before but clearly bungled it
somehow.
Russell
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