On Tuesday 27 November 2012 at 22:11, jcbollinger wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:05:48 PM UTC-6, joe wrote: > > If you want to make sure all three packages are installed before the file, > > the best thing in this situation is to order the classes. > > > > What he has written should work just fine. Relationships to classes sometimes > make sense and sometimes do not. Among other things, they do not make sense > for signaling relationships (expressed using 'notify' or 'subscribe', or the > ~> or <~ operators). > > On the other hand, I don't think signaling relationships involving classes > are any more meaningful than ordinary ones, inasmuch as classes neither > broadcast events nor have a refresh behavior. File resources also have no > refresh behavior, so there is really no point in using 'notify' instead of > 'before' in the example. Thus it could indeed work -- for that example -- to > set up a relationship at class level. I think there must be more to this > story, though. Actually, if you notify a class or define you will notify every resource contained inside it, causing services to be restarted and refresh only execs to be executed. -- Erik Dalén -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. 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.
