On Aug 23, 12:51 pm, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone please succinctly explain to me the difference between include
> and require?
The 'require' function (not to be confused with the 'require' resource
metaparameter) does everything that 'include' does, plus adds a class-
level dependency. Thus, this:
class foo {
require 'bar'
}
is equivalent to this:
class foo {
include 'bar'
}
Class['bar'] -> Class['foo']
To put it another way, 'include' affects only catalog compilation,
whereas 'require' affects both compilation by the master and
application by the agent.
> The documentation implies that simply putting 'require <class>' at the top
> of a different class automatically means that <class> is fully implemented
> as a dependency.
I'm not sure what you mean by that
> However, it doesn't seem to work that way. Also, I'm not
> seeing a situation where the use of include seems to be automatically
> resolving dependancies. This is puppet 0.25.5.
I can't really offer any advice based on that description of the
problem. Can you provide an example that demonstrates it?
John
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