On Thursday, August 23, 2012 12:59:32 AM UTC-5, Douglas wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Martin Alfke <tux...@gmail.com<javascript:>>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 22.08.2012, at 14:27, Axel Bock wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Where did you put the dependency?
> > What puppet version are you using.
> >
> > Normally this works:
> >
> > define task_one ( $user = 'root' ) {
> > file { '/tmp/one':
> > owner => $user,
> > content => $user,
> > }
> > }
> > define task_two ( $user = 'root' ) {
> > file { '/tmp/two':
> > owner => $user,
> > content => $user,
> > }
> > }
> > task_one { 'foo': }
> > task_two { 'foo': }
> > Task_one['foo'] -> Task_two['foo']
> >
> > You can also place the order inside the define:
> >
> > define task_two ( $user = 'root') {
> > file { '/tmp/two':
> > owner => $name,
> > content => $name,
> > }
> > Task_one["$name"] -> Task_two["$name"]
> > }
>
> This really irks me. Is this documented anywhere? How did Task_one get
> into scope inside Task_two? What is the scope for definitions? Are
> they global?
>
All declared resource instances and classes have global scope. That
includes resource instances of defined and custom types.
John
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