On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Paul Belanger <paul.belan...@polybeacon.com> wrote: > On 12-06-28 08:57 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote: >> >> Hi Puppet folks, >> >> I'm a Fedora packager, and I'm looking into packaging up some of the >> modules at http://forge.puppetlabs.com/users/puppetlabs >> >> I'm thinking through the naming scheme for modules. It looks like the >> upstream modules include the creators' names as part of the package names, >> which strikes me as a little verbose from the perspective of Fedora >> packaging. >> >> For example, the Puppetlabs' mysql module RPM would (in theory) be called >> "puppetmodule-puppetlabs-mysql". That's a mouthful. Any chance we could >> have the Puppet Labs' modules be considered "canonical" modules on the >> Forge, and then strip away the puppetlabs vendor name? Any other ideas >> welcome. >> > I'm considering doing the same for Debian. I haven't researched a naming > scheme yes however I would expect something like > puppetmodule-puppetlabs-mysql or puppet-module-puppetlabs-mysql would apply. > > I'd be reluctant to call it puppet-module-mysql unless it was actually > bundled within puppet.
In the Debian world I'd consider a metapackage (hope this is the right term) callet puppet-module-mysql, that can be install package alternatives, and have puppet-module-puppetlabs-mysql (or something like that) be one of possibly many alternatives. I think the bigger question is whether Puppetlabs (via puppet forge) considers best practice to have multiple modules supporting the same service to be either/or alternatives, or wants people to make modules that can be coexist in parallel. In my limited experience working with people's third party modules, there seems to be an assumption that a given module will be the only module on a given puppetmaster/modulepath that is capable of managing a given service/package, but I don't know if this is a published standard or just people not thinking folks might want to have two modules managing the same resource installed at the same time. > > -- > Paul Belanger | PolyBeacon, Inc. > Jabber: paul.belan...@polybeacon.com | IRC: pabelanger (Freenode) > Github: https://github.com/pabelanger | Twitter: > https://twitter.com/pabelanger > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
