On Thursday, October 4, 2012 4:00:53 AM UTC-5, Mike wrote:
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I think I've found my problem
>
> I had an include in the ubuntu base.pp
> modules/ubuntu-common/manifests/base.pp:
>
> include ubuntu-something
>
> class ubuntu-common::base {
> file { "/etc/openntpd/ntpd.conf":
> ensure => file,
> owner => root,
> group => root,
> mode => 644,
> content =>
> template("ubuntu-common/$operatingsystemrelease/etc-openntpd-ntpd.conf.erb"),
> }
> }
>
> If I understand it right, OpenBSD works until this file is included in
> cache, when an Ubuntu agent connects this file is loaded and as the
> "include" is outside the class it will be included for OpenBSD too, am I
> right? At least moving the include inside the ubuntu-common::base class
> fixed my issue.
>
That's conceivable. Any declaration at top-level in any manifest applies,
in principle, to all nodes. Depending on the manifest in which it appears,
however, it may or may not actually be parsed. This is an excellent reason
to avoid such declarations except in site.pp and any files directly or
indirectly 'import'ed by site.pp. I cannot confirm the specifics of
Puppet's caching strategy with respect to such declarations, but I can
definitely say that the declaration was placed incorrectly.
> I find it a bit annoying that something may fail depending on which agent
> connects, is there something I can do (like a puppet master option) so that
> in my example OpenBSD would fail directly and not only once an Ubuntu agent
> connects
There may be master-side cache management directives you could use, but
something like that would have just kept the error in your manifests
hidden, rather than revealing it. Meanwhile, you would suffer a
performance penalty and concomitant reduction in capacity at your
puppetmaster.
Although it's not exactly what you were looking for, I think you can avoid
a recurrence of this sort of problem by ensuring that all your declarations
are inside classes or nodes, or possibly in site.pp. That should avoid
flip flops with respect to which declarations Puppet sees for each client.
John
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