On 26 June 2012 02:01, Chris Price <ch...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We've been doing some work lately to harden the pluginsync functionality for > Puppet 3.x. An issue was brought to my attention by Jeff McCune: > > In current versions of puppet, it's possible to configure things like your > vardir and libdir in any section of the config file; potentially, this means > that you can specify a different libdir for all three of ["main", "master", > "agent"]. > > This causes problems with respect to pluginsync; when you run an agent, it > will sync down plugins / modules / faces from the master into the *agent's* > libdir. Then, when you try to run a face (even the "help" face), your > libdir will be set to the "main" libdir, and thus it won't have the content > that it needs from the previous agent run. > > The basic problem here is that all of our various client-side programs > *must* share the same libdir. Thus, it seems that we need to restrict the > ability to set these for individual client programs. > > We have a short-term and a long-term solution in mind to resolve this. In > the short term, we will simply disallow libdir and related settings from > appearing in any sections of puppet.conf other than "main" and "master". > (This will still allow the master to have a separate libdir from > client-side programs.) The ticket and pull req for this are here: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15211 > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/875 >
Sounds good to me, as long as it is possible to have different settings for client and master I'm happy with the change. > Slightly longer term, we are thinking of simply removing support for > "run-mode"-specific configuration sections in the puppet.conf file. We > would only allow three sections: "main" (possibly renamed to "global" or > similar), "master", and "ca". (Obviously you could still specify > environments in there as well, though we probably should move those to a > separate config file in the future.) > > This is filed as a ticket here: > > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/15212 Would this still mean that "ca" defaults to "master" settings as it currently does? -- Erik Dalén -- 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.
