On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having a problem with variable interpolation that I haven't found a good
> solution to. I want to use a variable as part of the name of a fact, but
> the interpolation doesn't work as expected. I've allowed for passing the
> mac address into my define() but if it's not provided I want to look it up
> via facter.
>
> if "$macaddress_${name}" {
> $final_hwaddr = "$macaddress_${name}"
> }
>
> I want Puppet to look up the value of macaddress_eth0 or whatever, but
> instead it returns the value of $name. How can I get the appropriate value?
Should be a function instead of inline_template:
$myvar = "macaddress_${name}"
$hwaddr = inline_template("<%= scope.lookupvar(myvar) %>")
Nan
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