Weird. You'd think this would be common problem number 1 in people
trying to use modules with puppet...
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Carl Caum <carl.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Interesting. That's worked for me in the past. Well outside of
> creating a package resource default, you'll need to just put requires
> in the classes that require other classes to be run first. Really,
> that's not a bad idea at all since relationships should be explicit
> if not just for readability. Remember that puppet should be your
> executable documentation.
>
> You might be able to do something like:
>
> if defined(Class["yum"]) {
> require yum
> }
>
> But I've never tried that. If it works, then it will only define a
> relationship if the class is actually being used. Just keep that this
> will not work in 0.25 since require is broken. It will work in 0.25.1
> though.
>
>
> On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>
>>
>> Actually, that doesn't seem to be what's happening Carl.
>>
>> I have this...
>>
>> node tst_basenode {
>>
>> # Do not include any modules here, other than yum, that require
>> software
>> # or they will fail! If you include other modules in this node
>> definition,
>> # there is no guarantee that yum will be completed before them.
>> include yum
>>
>> }
>>
>> node tst_basenode_centos inherits tst_basenode {
>> include yum-priority
>> include ntp
>> include ldap_client
>> include syslog_ng
>> }
>>
>> node test_node inherits tst_basenode_centos {
>> include mysql_client
>> include mysql_server
>> }
>>
>> ... and I am DEFINITELY seeing puppet try and install objects from
>> ldap, mysql and yum-priority BEFORE the yum module is complete.
>>
>> Douglas.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Douglas Garstang
>> <doug.garst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Awesome info. Thanks Carl!
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Carl Caum <carl.c...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There's two ways you can go about this.
>>>>
>>>> 1) One dirty little secret of puppet is that inheritance is always
>>>> done in order. So if you move the includes for yum and yum-priority
>>>> to the node basenode_centos_5, they will processed first. I'm not
>>>> sure if this is still true in 0.25 though.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Set up a package default in the base node.
>>>>
>>>> Package{
>>>> require => [ Class["yum"], Class["yum-priority"] ];
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure there's other ways to go about this, so other feel free to
>>>> pitch in :)
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 23, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I have this...
>>>>>
>>>>> node test_node inherits basenode_centos_5 {
>>>>> include yum
>>>>> include yum-priority
>>>>> include mysql_client
>>>>> include mysql_server
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> Puppet seems to be executing stuff from the mysql_client and
>>>>> mysql_server modules before the yum module. I had assumed that
>>>>> modules
>>>>> were executed in the order that they where included, but this seems
>>>>> not to be the case. I guess you could use requires() all over the
>>>>> place in the mysql modules to make sure that yum had completed
>>>>> doing
>>>>> it's thing first, but that seems horribly complicated to me. Is
>>>>> there
>>>>> a better way? Since having your yum repositories is critical to
>>>>> software being installed, it should always be done first.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please don't tell me I have to do it with requires.... :( That
>>>>> would
>>>>> mean EVERY package() statement would need a requires => class
>>>>> ['yum'],
>>>>> right?
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Douglas Garstang
>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/garstang
>>> Email: doug.garst...@gmail.com
>>> Cell: +1-805-340-5627
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Douglas Garstang
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/garstang
>> Email: doug.garst...@gmail.com
>> Cell: +1-805-340-5627
>>
>> >
>
>
> >
>
--
Regards,
Douglas Garstang
http://www.linkedin.com/in/garstang
Email: doug.garst...@gmail.com
Cell: +1-805-340-5627
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