Thank you all for the responses. For some reason when I was
originally testing this function it was giving the error mentioned
previously. However, it does seem to be working now. I'm wondering
if there wasn't something cached on the puppet client or a typo
somewhere else. Unfortunately I'm relatively new to Puppet and Ruby.
The argument to find_file function is actually a relative path like
"etc/hosts". We have a production and test environment which would
fill in the $mode, and several different system roles for $role. The
whole reason I created this function is to have one class defined that
would work with all $mode and $role options and to provide the ability
to create one-off files if needed used by $host and also a common to
all options. This may go against the idea of Puppet, but it will be
useful in our environment.
Thanks again!
Nate
On Oct 13, 6:32 pm, Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Nate <nathan.schum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying create a custom function that will return an array of file
> > paths for the file type source. Instead of defining the following
> > array for source for each file type:
>
> > file: { "some_file":
> > source => [ "puppet:///file/$hostname/path", "puppet:///file/$role/
> > $mode/path", "puppet:///file/$role/path", "puppet:///file/common/
> > path", ],
> > ...
> > }
>
> In general more desirable to be explicit about the file you are
> distributing rather than using this pattern. Moving on to the issue.
>
> > I've created a custom function to return the generated array similar
> > to the following:
>
> > file: { "some_file":
> > source => find_file(path),
> > ...
> > }
>
> Function seems fine:
> notice: Scope(Class[main]): puppet:///files/puppet/file.txt
> puppet:///files/my_role//file.txt puppet:///files/my_role/file.txt
> puppet:///files/common/file.txt
> notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds
>
> file: { ... should be file { "some_file": ...
>
> Are you using path as a variable instead of the actual file path?
>
> file { "some_file":
> source => find_file("/path/to/file"),
> ...
>
> }
>
> HTH,
>
> Nan
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