Re: [Puppet Users] Prevent duplicate resources

2019-09-30 Thread jcbollinger
On Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 5:27:24 AM UTC-5, Martin Alfke wrote: > > Hi Timo, > > there are two ways to achieve duplicate resource prevention: > > 1. virtual resources > > [...] > > > 2nd option is to use the ensure_packages or ensure_resources function (I > don't like this way as

Re: [Puppet Users] Prevent duplicate resources

2019-09-28 Thread Martin Alfke
Hi Timo, there are two ways to achieve duplicate resource prevention: 1. virtual resources migrate all packages which could be used by multiple classes into a separate class and mark them with the @-sign to be "virtual". Virtual resources are not added to catalog onless you tell Puppet to reali