On 03/16/2011 11:42 AM, Greg Sutcliffe wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm learning all about exported resources, and I've encountered an > issue. Put simply, two things which logically should be same result in > one working and one not working. I'm sure I'm missing something > obvious, but I can't see it, so I'm someone can spot my error. > > The situation: I'm running stock Debian 2.6.2 on master and client. I'm > defining a simple File export which creates a directory on another > machine. Here's the code that works: > > class client { > > @@file{ "/mnt/backups/$hostname": > ensure => directory, > owner => "remotebackup", > group => "users", > tag => "rsync::coreserver::$region", > } > } > > class server { > File <<| tag == "rsync::coreserver::$region" |>> > } > > This works exactly as expected - the "server" machine creates a > directory named as per the client's hostname. However, if I wrap this > in a define(), it all goes wrong. Here's the code: > > class client { > @@rsync::target{ "$hostname": tag => "rsync::coreserver::$region" } > } > > class server { > Rysnc::Target <<| tag == "rsync::coreserver::$region" |>> > } > > define rsync::target() { > file{ "/mnt/backups/$name": > ensure => directory, > owner => "remotebackup", > group => "users", > } > } > > The define just wraps up the file definition so it's easier for me to > collect the right resources in the server class. But it doesn't work. > The server doesn't create any directories, although I can see entries > in the storeconfig db for the rsync::target resource type. What am I > missing?
I call possible bug on this one. I don't see an open issue that sounds quite like this, so you may want to report this. http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues/new Cheers, Felix -- 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.