Ah maybe I'm too stupid but the whole puppet dependency resolution _seriously_ annoys me, so this is half a rant post, half a plea for someone to enlighten me about this dependency thing puppet has going.
I have another custom define which basically contains an exe and a file (directory). The file is not dependent on anything, but everywhere I use it I add a "require" to the define roughly like this: my_rsync_define { ... require => something_else_before }. unfortunately puppet simply does not care and tries do create the directory as the first step in the process, failing. this is not intuitive _at all_. the dot graph (I used graphviz a lot today) tells me that the DEFINE itself actually IS dependant on the something_else_before I added, but the DIRECTORY WITHIN THE DEFINE ... stands alone. I personally think this is ... not great. but maybe it's because I have an old version. File autorequires don't seem to work too well here, too, I think. Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012 14:27:03 UTC+2 schrieb Axel Bock: > > Hi readers > > another question for my little puppet project: Can I (and if yes, how) > define dependendies between puppet "defines"? (define like in define > mymodule::mydefine() {...}) > > Example: I have a define "prepare_cool_thing" and another define > "cool_thing". Both can be on a machine several times (quite, actually, like > vhosts :). So this is entirely valid: > > prepare_cool_thing{ "name1" : } > cool_thing{ "name1" : } > > prepare_cool_thing{ "name2" : } > cool_thing{ "name2" : } > > I'm sure you get it. BUT. I'd like to state within the cool_thing define > that the prepare_cool_thing was executed. Can I do that? The following does > not seem to do what I want: > > Prepare_cool_thing[ "name1" ] -> Cool_thing[ "name1" ] # naah, does not > work. > > > Thanks & greetings! > Axel. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/9BNRHcD0VSoJ. 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.