[Puppet Users] Re: Problems with custom type and provider, resulting file doesn't get updated

2012-03-28 Thread Michael K
Hello Nan, Ok, the article by Brice gives me some pointers. I'll see if I can get it working using properties, and write back with my findings tomorrow. If it works, I'll provide a complete working example for others to learn from. Many thanks! Michael -- You received this message because yo

[Puppet Users] Re: Problems with custom type and provider, resulting file doesn't get updated

2012-03-28 Thread Michael K
Hello Derek, Thanks for the quick reply. I've been thinking along those lines as well, create a md5 sum or something of both the file and my newly created content string. Problem is: is this the correct way to do it? I've found multiple type & provider examples on github which DO NOT do this. A

[Puppet Users] Problems with custom type and provider, resulting file doesn't get updated

2012-03-28 Thread Michael K
Hello Everyone, I've implemented a custom type and provider to generate a file, but am having some trouble with getting it to work right. Googling, reading the docs and searching the group here haven't led to a solution, so I decided to ask for help. As I said I've created a custom type and pr

[Puppet Users] Upgrade puppet from 2.5 to 2.6.1, module error

2010-09-16 Thread Michael K
Upon upgrading from 2.5 to 2.6.1, I am no seeing the following error, and not sure how to track the problem down: No source module metadata provided for apache at /etc/puppet/ manifests/templates.pp:5 on node puppet-test.example.com. Previously, this worked. I'll be happy to provide any addition