That didn't exactly help me out. I would like to include one .erb from inside another .erb (vs concatenating .erbs together, which is what I'm gathering is what happens when done in the manifest).
The file path I gave was an example, as the one given is written in a way that suggests absolute system paths. This is the entry in question: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/templating.html#combining-templates On Apr 6, 6:48 pm, Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:54 PM, draeath <drae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the puppet documentation, it is stated: > > > "You can also use templates to fill in variables in addition to > > filling out file contents." > > template('/path/to/template1','/path/to/template2') > > I don't have the specific document, so not sure if I'm missing any > context, I presume this simply means: > > $foo = template('/path/to/foo.erb') > > file { '/etc/a': > content => template('/path/to/foo.erb') > > } > > My question: is this done in the ERB file, or in the puppet manifest? > > If done in the ERB file, I assume it also has to be within <% %> tags, > > but unlike all the other examples in the documentation it is not > > presented this way. > > > The /path/to/ - is there some way to properly do this, or do I need to > > do '/etc/puppet/files/templates/...../foo.erb' ? > > Please follow the modules > convention:http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/modules.html > > For portability, place the file in $module_name/templates/ directory > and use the module name: > $foo = template("${module_name}/foo.erb") > > Thanks, > > Nan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
