David, Hiera-puppet does provide the glue between Puppet and Hiera. You need to install both hiera and hiera-puppet if you are doing hiera lookups in your manifests (regardless of puppet version). Hiera-puppet provides the parser functions that are used in manifests and hiera does the lookups.
haus On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:29 PM, David <dnblankedel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, July 16, 2012 3:10:28 PM UTC-4, Matthaus Litteken wrote: >> >> The hiera 1.0 rc packages or the 0.3.0 gem will work with 2.7.x. Hiera >> 1.0 will work with both Puppet 2.7.x and Puppet 3.x. And to answer >> your other question, Hiera 1.0.0rc1 was never publicly released as a >> package because a bug was found internally before it released. >> >> Does that help answer your questions? > > > Very close, and extremely helpful, thanks. I think my other question might > not have been clear. It appears there are separate "hiera" and > "hiera-puppet" packages (the latter being the one with the 1.0.0rc1 > designation) in the puppetlabs devel apt repo. See > http://apt.puppetlabs.com/pool/lucid/devel/h/ for what I mean. I was under > the impression that hiera-puppet contained the glue code between puppet 3.x > and hiera 1.x. Am I correct that 2.7.x users do not need to install it? > > If this is the case, it seems like it makes more sense to pull hiera 1.0.0 > from github rather than try to get it from the devel apt repo. At least > until a hiera package gets blessed into the non-devel repos. Does that sound > right to you? > > Thanks for your help. > > -- dNb > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/SFtd9eorcKUJ. > > 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. -- Matthaus Litteken Release Manager, Puppet Labs -- 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.
