On Mar 18, 8:29 pm, Mike Frisch <mike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:53:57 PM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote:
>
> > employ. I think it's better, though, to just let the compilation
> > failures happen -- use them to detect where you need to patch up
> > conflicts between modules.
>
> I agree with this, however I have a scenario where the end-user could
> arbitrarily select 3 different modules, all of which include "package {
> 'httpd': ; }", for example. None of the modules are requiring patching as
> they all legitimately use and depend upon Apache. Is there any possibility
> of a workaround for this?
On the contrary, all three modules require patching if they are
supposed to be usable together. It is incorrect for them to each
declare Package['httpd'] in that scenario. That's what the errors are
telling you (just as they should).
If these three modules each depend on httpd but not on each other,
then that means none of them is a suitable owner for the httpd
package. You need to create a new module for managing httpd itself,
and let the three existing modules depend on that. As long as your
declaration of the httpd package does not need to depend on class
parameters, you can do this without touching your ENC. For instance:
class apache::base {
package { 'httpd':
ensure => latest
}
service { 'httpd':
haststatus => true,
hasrestart => true,
enable => true,
ensure => running
require => Package['httpd']
}
}
class mymodule::httpdstuff {
include 'apache::base'
# ...
}
> I'm using Puppet in a place where there's wrapper logic around including
> Puppet modules, which interfaces with an ENC.
That doesn't mean much to me. If it places relevant constraints on
what you can do then you'll need to explain.
John
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