On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 07:07:58AM -0800, jcbollinger wrote: > > > On Jan 10, 10:53 pm, Robin Lee Powell > <rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > Huh? You can write a Type in Puppet? How? I'm only aware of > > classes and defines, neither of which are that. > > Yes, you can, and you can distribute them to clients via Puppet > itself. See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/#extending-puppet, and > especially http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_types.html.
That's not in the Puppet *language*, that's in Ruby. It was "Puppet Types written in the Puppet language" that I was expressing surprise at. There are defines, but that's not really the same thing. Again: I don't see anybody distributing custom *resource types*, I see people distributing custom *modules* and defines. Since the docs at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#exec and http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#file both say that actual resource types should be use wherever possible. I would therefore expect there to either be a bunch of new types added to Puppet, or a well-known repository of user-created Puppet types, but there are neither of these things AFAICT. Hence, I'm confused. Philosophically speaking, at least. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The language in which "this parrot is dead" is "ti poi spitaki cu morsi", but "this sentence is false" is "na nei". My personal page: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/rlp/ -- 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.
