On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:16 AM, ncantor <ncan...@gmail.com> wrote: > However, by default, the package isn't called by anything.
There's also a subtle shift in thinking that may help you work with puppet. In the puppet language, resources are "declared" rather than "called" It's a bit strange because many resources actually look like function calls, especially when you start defining your own resources, but they really do not behave much like functions, procedures or methods in other languages. If you shift your thinking to "I am declaring the configuration of this package resource" rather than "I am calling this package resource" the language might make more sense. In puppet, the idea is not to write procedures and actions but rather to declare the desired state. In most cases declaring the desired state is enough for puppet to "figure out" the actions to carry out to get the system into that state. This is why puppet was able to, and did, take action on your systems without you actually telling it to install the package. Instead, you told it you wanted the package installed. See the subtle difference? Hope this helps, -- Jeff McCune http://www.puppetlabs.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@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.
