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> Is using an empty class in init.pp problematic ? All of these modules
> worked just fine before going from 2.6.8 to 2.7.1.
I have no idea, whether this is the problem. But why do you do:
> # manifests/init.pp
> import "classes/*.pp"
>
> class kvm {
> }
>
>
> # manifests/classes/host.pp
> class kvm::host {
?
Why not just have one file manifests/host.pp that contains the kvm::host
class? Everything else is not really necessary.
Puppet has quite a powerfull autoloading feature of classes and I think
it can be seen as a general best practice to have one class in a file in
its corresponding path on the filesystem.
With your current way you would need a global import kvm, so that the
init.pp class is actually parsed, so that the files in classes/ are
imported.
If this is not the case and the kvm::host class is not in a file that
can be found by the autoloader it won't find the class.
This becomes even trickier as other hosts can now interfere which
classes are available while compiling the next hosts classes, as an
import statement might only have been executed if Host A is compiled and
only this would then make these "imported" classes that Host B requires
available.
Actually, I remember that the autoloader should also look into init.pp
for the kvm::host class. But it's possible that something like that
might have changed in 2.7. But I don't know it.
Due to these two reasones (magic availability of classes, possible
changes in how classes become available in 2.7) I would generally
recommend to *not* use import statements and instead use puppet's
autoloading feature. They're rather hard to debug.
~pete
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