On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Mohamed Lrhazi <lrh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a custom fact called: gu_app_oracle_rac
>
> Which gets set, indirectly, by puppet itself... and so in the very
> first run it does not exist... I will be changing the whole business
> of how I set these facts, but I need a quick workaround to the
> following issue...
>
> I have some templates using that variable and so the first run fails
> because the var is undefined, and so I added this to site.pp:
>
>
> if !defined(gu_app_oracle_rac) {
> $gu_app_oracle_rac = false
> }
>
>
> Now, this allows the first run, maybe a few, to work... then when the
> fact comes to life, I get:
>
> Cannot reassign variable gu_app_oracle_rac in site.pp
>
> Why doesn't the *if* statement do what I expect it to do?
Pretty sure defined is for resource not variables. I'm not sure how
gu_app_oracle_rac is used, it might be easier to handle undef as false
instead.
if ! $fact_gu_app_oracle_rac {
$gu_app_oracle_rac = false
} else {
$gu_app_oracle_rac = $fact_gu_app_oracle_rac
}
Thanks,
Nan
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