On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Geoff Davis <gada...@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> I'm doing some work on module development inside of a Vagrant VM of CentOS > 6.2. This VM has the community version of Puppet installed (2.7.13 I > think), but that doesn't include Hiera by default. > > My module is dependent on Nan Liu's puppet-staging module, which requires > hiera. This puts me into the proverbial chicken and egg problem of not > having a puppet function but also not being able to install it with puppet, > since my manifests don't compile due to the hiera function not being > available. > > Right now, I'm doing a manual bootstrap of a new vagrant box with a > dedicated Puppet manifest that calls another one of Nan's modules, > puppet-hiera, to install hiera on the Vagrant VM, but I'd rather use the > same manifest for both bootstrap and module testing. I don't care if it > takes two passes to converge, I just don't want a freshly booted Vagrant > box to complain because it can't compile it's manifest. > > Is there a relatively foolproof way to determine if Puppet has a function > available to it or not? Is there a "has_function" function available in the > Puppet DSL, or is there a check that I could roll into a fact that works > cross-platform and between Puppet Enterprise and Community? > > There's a pending pull request in the stdlib module for adding a function_available function https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/pull/59 -- 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.
