Thanks for the response Joseph - that does help that you had the same
situation. That was the only solution I could think of, I was just hoping
there was some other way. I’m going to guess it is something to do with
scoping of how the catalog is compiled, but I don’t know enough about the
puppet internals to say that with authority.
On Jan 14, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Joseph Swick <joseph.sw...@meltwater.com> wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 05:12 PM, Justin Lambert wrote:
>> I’m attempting to create a bunch of symlinks based on an array of filenames
>> but I can’t figure out how to use the title of the resource within the
>> resource itself.
>>
>> class app::config {
>> file { [ 'a.conf', 'b.conf' ]:
>> ensure => 'link',
>> path => "/etc/app/${name}",
>> target => "/usr/app/${name}
>> }
>> }
>> $name and $title both equal app::config in this example. Is what I’m trying
>> to do possible?
>>
>> I’m running puppet 3.4.0.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Justin
>>
>
> It is, but you have to use a define (or at least how I'm doing it uses a
> define), here's an example based on something thing I'm doing:
>
> common.pp:
> class my_module::common () {
> ...
>
> my_module::common::my_symlinks { ['file1', 'file2', 'file3']: }
>
> ...
> }
>
> common/my_symlinks.pp:
> define my_module::common::my_symlinks: {
> file { "symlink_${name}":
> ensure => link,
> path => "/some/path/${name}",
> target => "/some/other/path/${name}",
> }
> }
>
> I wasn't the first to figure that out, I think I remember who I got it
> from, but I'm not sure if it's something they came up with or if they
> got it from somewhere else. Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Joseph Swick <joseph.sw...@meltwater.com>
> Operations Engineer
> Meltwater Group
>
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