On Jun 1, 7:42 am, Jeff McCune <j...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > Honestly, these feel like different modules to me primarily because they're > very different things on Solaris. Some of those apaches may have SMF > manifests, some may not, the paths are going to vary wildly, etc..
That's an interesting twist--we've generally been organizing modules based on a vague notion of distinct services or system facilities (with concomitant ambiguities for very general or very minor ones, like "Should logadm/ logrotate be part of the syslog module or in (a) separate module(s)?" and "Where should a refresh-only exec to reload init go?") and leaving it up to ::params to get these parts right for each $::osfamily, since we routinely deal with these same variations but based exclusively on facts rather than admin's whim. > I think doing all of this in one module will make the module overly > complex. The majority of the code will be dealing with "What Apache > instance am I really managing here?" Unless you use defined resources, it > will also be difficult to manage multiple copies of Apache on the same node > with this module. Apache might have also been a poor example, since the legion of Apache modules on PF (and the complexity of our own internal module) attests to the inevitable incompleteness for a sufficiently complex service. Or maybe it was a really good example. In fact I was starting a Samba module and vaguely assuming that there were possibly other packages than those from OpenCSW that were in use somewhere in the world. (And I wonder why things take so long...) By comparison, Samba is relatively simple--one config File, one or two Services, three different package combinations, etc. The conclusion that I am drawing based on your and jcbollinger's responses is that there is not an obvious and correct way to do this and, on my part, I am just solve my immediately needs and not solve the general case right now. Thanks! Wil -- 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.
