Those hooks are the gross syntax checks to which he initially referred. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Greg Hellings <ghelli...@spokeo.com> wrote:
> Have you looked at using these? > projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Puppet_Version_Control > > -- > Greg > > > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lar...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> If anyone out there follows Serverfault, this is a duplicate of >> http://goo.gl/CTS2u. I'm hoping there are some subject matter experts >> here :). >> >> I am trying to place some sanity checks (currently as git pre-commit >> hooks) in our configuration repository to avoid committing invalid Puppet >> configurations. I'm having a surprising amount of trouble coming up with a >> way to effectively validate the configuration. My obvious first choice was >> "puppet parser validate ...", which does some gross syntax checks (unmatched >> quotes and brackets and so forth) but doesn't throw errors on things like >> this: >> >> file { 'somefile': >> requires => Service['someservice'] >> } >> >> (where 'requires' should be 'require'), nor does it notice problems like >> this: >> >> sdlflsjlksdf { 'myname': } >> >> (where 'sdlflsjlksdf' isn't defined anywhere). >> >> Some folks have suggested "puppet master --compile ...", but this really, >> reallly wants to fix permissions all over the place on directories that are >> used by Puppet. I have also tried "puppet apply --noop", but this still >> tries to stat() any files referenced in the manifests, which means it will >> fail with permission errors if it tries to stat() a file or directory that >> is not accessible to a non-root user. Does anyone here have suggestions for >> effectively performing more aggressive syntax checks than those offered by >> "puppet parser validate"? >> >> -- Lars >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/cpzgsk5X2fgJ. >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
