On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, jcbollinger wrote: > Where there are dependencies among the managed resources, Puppet will > choose a path that accommodates them, as long as you describe the > dependencies accurately. Sometimes you can luck out with > underspecified dependencies, and sometimes overspecified dependencies > are (mostly) harmless, but both those situations are brittle and > better avoided.
I think it can be very helpful for beginners to be able to see the diagram of their dependencies, and where there is a cycle or an ordering problem, usually seeing it in graphical form makes it clear what the relationships should be. I wrote a blog post on the '--graph' option for drawing dependency graphs which was touched on here a few months ago. If anyone doesn't know how to do this, or would like to see some example diagrams, have a look: http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-dependency-graphs John -- http://bitfieldconsulting.com/ http://twitter.com/bitfield --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
