On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 7:53:21 AM UTC-5, Trammael wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to send parameters to an Exec ("exec1") based on values, using
> a case statement. I've tried putting the two versions of the exec in a
> case block, which failed (exec1 is a dependency of exec2, and exec2
> complained it could not find exec1)
>
That sounds like a different problem. If some other resource depends on
Exec['exec1'], then you must ensure that it is declared. That declaration
can certainly be in a case statement, but then you do need to ensure that
every case declares a version of the Exec.
> , and a case statement can't go directly directly into the parameters of
> the Exec itself
>
No, that's what selectors are for:
exec { 'exec1':
command => $color ? {
blue => '/sbin/aix-foo',
silver => '/sbin/osx_foo',
red => '/sbin/rhel_foo',
default => '/sbin/foo'
}
}
Alternatively, you can assign the parameters to variables inside your case
statement, then set the resource parameters via the variable values.
>
> Google helped me with this thread:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.puppet.user/20597
>
> But I wonder if there is a more modern way of doing it with 2.7.19 (or
> 3.0)?
>
>
There is also the alternative of loading the wanted data from an external
data source. That's not more "modern", really, as Puppet has had external
data facilities for a long time. The community has, however, coalesced
around "Hiera" for accessing external data. That was available as far back
as Puppet 2.6, I believe, but it was a third-party add-on until its
integration into the core in Puppet 3.
John
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