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We have several modules that have defines within them that the style guide
(sections 11.1 & 11.4) and puppet-lint suggest should be in their own
file. I'm working on fixing them and have a question about how things
should be refactored.
A stripped down example:
The node:
node 'foo.bar.edu' {
include oracledb::instantclient
}
file modules/oracledb/manifests/instantclient.pp:
class oracledb::instantclient($version='11.1') {
include ldconfig
# other non-relevant stuff here
ldconfig::config { 'oracle-instantclient':
content => template('oracledb/instantclient.ld.conf.erb'),
}
}
file modules/ldconfig/manifests/init.pp:
class ldconfig {
exec { '/sbin/ldconfig':
refreshonly => true,
alias => 'ldconfig',
}
define config($content) {
file { "/etc/ld.so.conf.d/${name}.conf":
ensure => file,
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0644',
content => $content,
notify => Exec['ldconfig'],
}
}
}
Note the define for config() within the init.pp for ldconfig. That's now
out of favor. Moving that define into it's own file in
modules/ldconfig/manifests/config.pp is straightforward, but it leaves
me with questions about where the exec should be.
- if I add a "requires => Class['ldconfig']" to the file within the
config() define, I now have a circular dependency that puppet errors on.
- if I don't include the "requires => Class['ldconfig']" but I'm careful
to keep the "include ldconfig" in every class that also uses
ldconfig::config, things "work", but that seems like the wrong way to
do it, as it only works if I do both things, because of the implicit
dependency on the exec.
- I've tried moving the exec inside the define, like this:
file modules/ldconfig/manifests/config.pp:
define ldconfig::config($content) {
exec { '/sbin/ldconfig':
refreshonly => true,
alias => 'ldconfig',
}
file { "/etc/ld.so.conf.d/${name}.conf":
ensure => file,
owner => 'root',
group => 'root',
mode => '0644',
content => $content,
notify => Exec['ldconfig'],
}
}
but that results in duplicate definitions of the exec:
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
Duplicate declaration: Exec[/sbin/ldconfig] is already declared in file
/etc/puppet/modules/ldconfig/manifests/config.pp at line 6; cannot
redeclare at /etc/puppet/modules/ldconfig/manifests/config.pp:6 on node
foo.bar.edu
- I've considered giving the exec an alias that is unique per define,
e.g. something like
exec { '/sbin/ldconfig':
refreshonly => true,
alias => "ldconfig-${name}",
}
and then doing a 'notify => Exec["ldconfig-${name}"]', but that too
seems pretty hackish, though it may be my fall-back position if
someone doesn't have a more elegant way to handle this.
Any thoughts on how this should be re-organized?
Thanks,
Tim
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