[Puppet Users] Re: Conditional host file entries, Puppet's non-sequential tree

2009-08-22 Thread Duncan Hill
2009/8/21 Duncan Hill : > 2009/8/20 Larry Ludwig : >> >> >> On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Duncan Hill wrote: >> >> why not define the variables per 'node'?  Why use inheritance at all? >> Personally I'm not a fan of node inheritance and lik

[Puppet Users] Re: Conditional host file entries, Puppet's non-sequential tree

2009-08-21 Thread Duncan Hill
2009/8/20 Larry Ludwig : > > > On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Duncan Hill wrote: > > why not define the variables per 'node'?  Why use inheritance at all? > Personally I'm not a fan of node inheritance and like putting all of > the classes in another class wh

[Puppet Users] Re: Conditional host file entries, Puppet's non-sequential tree

2009-08-20 Thread Duncan Hill
On Aug 19, 4:03 pm, Duncan Hill wrote: > Hello folks, > > node application-server inherits generic-server { >  all common stuff other than hosts >  possibly the if logic to set the IPs} > > node specific-1 inherits application-server { >  host {}} > > node specific

[Puppet Users] Conditional host file entries, Puppet's non-sequential tree

2009-08-19 Thread Duncan Hill
Hello folks, Running 0.24.6, and I need a clue-by-4 with something I'm trying to do. I have a single manifest file, used by 3 servers. Depending on the server name, I need to allocate a different set of variables that get used to populate a host {} block. Since Puppet doesn't work in a top-dow

[Puppet Users] Re: 32bit and 64bit versions of packages

2009-08-04 Thread Duncan Hill
2009/8/4 Ohad Levy : > Hi, > > It does work, the main problem is that usually libs are dependents of other > rpms. > if you do it this way, you have to find out the  each and every lib rpm > which the application you actually want to use depends upon. Yum certainly handles this. What I have done

[Puppet Users] Re: ANNOUNCE: 0.25.0 Release Candidate 1 is out!

2009-08-04 Thread Duncan Hill
2009/8/4 James Turnbull : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This is the rc1 release of Puppet 0.25.0. > > It is available at: > > http://reductivelabs.com/downloads/puppet/puppet-0.25.0rc1.tar.gz > New Language Features > - - > > Regular expression matchin

[Puppet Users] Re: HP PSP installation

2008-11-01 Thread Duncan Hill
2008/10/31 Gajillion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > I'm a newb to puppet but have a good deal of experience with > CFEngine. We want to replace CFEngine in our environment because of > its monolithic nature. As a proof of concept, I'd like to duplicate a > particular function we've always had tr

[Puppet Users] Re: Managing Postfix Configuration

2008-09-07 Thread Duncan Hill
2008/9/8 Darryl Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi All, > > What is the recommended way of managing something like the postfix > configuration file? I would prefer _not_ to overwrite the config file with one > stored centrally or using the templating system. > > Ideally I'd like to use the 'postconf