[Puppet Users] Re: Referencing the same package from multiple classes

2010-12-17 Thread bluebook
Thanks everyone for the pointers. I've gone with the Virtual Resources approach because (a) the description of them more or less exactly matches my use case, and (b) because from a class perspective I'm trying to follow the "is a web server" type of paradigm, and "is a jre-jce" doesn't really work

[Puppet Users] Referencing the same package from multiple classes

2010-12-17 Thread bluebook
Hello, I'm new to puppet, so maybe this is a silly question, but an hour of googling has thrown up nothing. I am trying to define a set of classes which each represent different server types in my architecture, for example "dns server" and "web server". A single machine may perform more than one