I think you misunderstand what puppet is doing there. Variables are not a
literal character replacement, they have types.
I think what you want is
require => Package[$pkglist]
The [] in your variable assignment tells puppet it is an array.
The [] in the Package example I provided tells puppet you are referring to
packages that have already been defined and not trying to change the
Package type's defaults.
On Monday, November 19, 2012 4:45:55 PM UTC-7, Philip Brown wrote:
>
> I've poked around the puppet docs, and google, and so far I'm stuck on an
> apparent inconsistency of usage, when it comes to using arrays, and
> variables, interchangably.
> I should mention this is with puppet 3.0.1
>
> If you use literal arrays, both of the following are possible and accepted
> by puppet:
>
> package{ ['pkg1', 'pkg2']:
> blahblah
> }
>
> service{ foo:
> require => Package['pkg1', 'pkg2'],
> }
>
>
> However. If I define a variable,
> $pkglist=['pkg1','pkg2']
>
> Then, while I CAN do
> package{ $pkglist:
> blahblah
> }
>
> It seems I cannot do
>
> service{ foo:
> require => Package $pkglist ,
> }
>
> This makes me sad :(
> Can someone tell if if there is some language shenanigans I must do, to
> get puppet to accept the last bit?
>
>
>
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