Re: [Puppet Users] need help with "name" parameter

2011-06-24 Thread Ken Barber
Thanks Stefan. A bug (originally a doc bug) and subsequent discussion at Puppetlabs is documented here: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8096 ken. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Stefan Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:37:25PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: >> So it would appear the

Re: [Puppet Users] need help with "name" parameter

2011-06-24 Thread Stefan Schulte
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:37:25PM +0100, Ken Barber wrote: > So it would appear the parameter 'name' acts as namevar for file and > exec at least ... its not defined in the type for these explicitly - > it seems implicit. This seems historical and I haven't seen it used > before (at least I've nev

Re: [Puppet Users] need help with "name" parameter

2011-06-22 Thread Ken Barber
So it would appear the parameter 'name' acts as namevar for file and exec at least ... its not defined in the type for these explicitly - it seems implicit. This seems historical and I haven't seen it used before (at least I've never used it myself). Does anyone know the history behind this? The f