On Saturday, May 28, 2016 at 6:19:19 PM UTC-5, Dan Mahoney wrote: > > Hey there. > > This is a weird question, but I guess I'll ask it anyway. > > Is there a way to say one of the following two things? > > 1) That you want a manifest to deliberately break when you try to include > two different items?
Rob already mentioned using the defined() function to test whether a key class of the competing module has already been declared. Do note (lack of) capitalization. More importantly, be aware that for this strategy to work, it needs to be mutual -- each module needs to exclude the other. If it were not mutual, then it would be possible to declare both modules in the same catalog despite the test, as long the declarations were evaluated in the correct order. Another alternative would be to choose some specific resource that has no corresponding physical resource, and have both modules declare that resource. If both modules are included then catalog building will fail with a duplicate declaration error. That, too, needs to be mutual, of course. I like this alternative better because it seems a better match to Puppet's resource-centric model. 2) To say that if I've installed the "postfix" module, that it basically > de-includes the "dma" class from the manifest? > > No. During catalog building, including a class or resource in the catalog is irreversible. This is a good reason to implement ideas such as yours to abstract MTA management to one class that chooses which system to use based on data. I like the kind of mutual exclusion you asked about better as a backstop for such an approach than as a primary mechanism. John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/dd04da57-621c-4228-a3f5-3eff25e545f0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
