The only "clean" way to handle this that I can think of off the top of my head is for Puppet to start silently discarding duplicate definitions and just using the first one it comes across (with perhaps a message being logged at info level so that it's not completely invisible).
This is far from ideal but so are the other proposed solutions so far :) On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 10:20 PM, Matthias Saou wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:32:31 +0100 > Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de > (mailto:felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de)> wrote: > > > Perhaps there needs to be some kind of "Forge common" module that by > > policy can only ever declare virtual resources (packages are a > > prominent example). > > > > > This only takes care of the Forge case. The problem of having the same > package being required in multiple places isn't limited to Forge, it's > one I run into locally all the time (and I'm sure I'm not the only one). > > On top of that, once you try to cover multiple distributions where > package names diverge, it starts getting hard. And once the packaging > itself is different, as in (non-existing) sub-packages... there is no > end (1). > > I don't have the slightest idea as to how all this could be solved in > a clean way, but "requiring a common bit of high level code" isn't the > global solution I'm myself hoping for. > > Matthias > > (1) Example where a nagios plugin requires the package for the nagios > perl bindings. It's "nagios-perl" for most RPMs, but not split out and > in the main "nagios-plugins" on Gentoo... then for any other plugin > from nagios-plugins RPMs, such as "nagios-plugins-file_age", same > thing. So you get a big mess with duplicate definitions for the main > Gentoo "nagios-plugins" package, or you need yet another layer of high > level code hack :-/ > > -- > 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 > (mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto: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.
