On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Gary Larizza <g...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Hey Gonzalo, > > Have you tried Hiera at all? (http://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera and > http://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera-puppet ) With Hiera (and, > specifically the hiera_array() function), you can scour through a hierarchy > to populate a variable inside your Puppet manifest. If you had a variable > to set excludes in many levels of your hierarchy, then > hiera_array('yum_excludes') would search every level of the hierarchy > (pertinent to your node according to its Facter facts) for a variable > called 'yum_excludes', and return an array with all values that it finds. > You could then utilize a template to populate the "exclude=" line in > yum.conf. > Ah, yes. I've heard of Hiera but didn't really have a use case for it. I'll definitely check it out. Thanks Gary! - Gonzalo -- 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.
