On Aug 9, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote: > Wow. > > My next reaction is, "Are you sure you woke up ?" But then I am a known and > convicted joker and a registered paronomasiac [1].
Nope ;) > In an effort to make a serious response: > > I feel you may be using the wrong tool for the job. quite possibly… I actually came up with this as a straw man example of a way to say 'this other module's hiera values may constrain or conflict with mine' > If, as in your example, snmp and tripwire are interrelated, that should be > handled by your class/resource definitions. *nod* I get that. I was thinking that having the ability to constrain possibilities of parameters or define conflicts in the hiera function of a module might make the 'shipping a module with hiera parameters to the forge for community use at large' easier. I have absolutely no attachment to the idea; if people thought the idea was a good one, great! I done helped a bit! but if not... well… I DID say I was asleep. > How would you solve this problem in a version of puppet before hiera ? Therein lies the problem, I think. The issues of divergently sourced module cohabitation is a complicated one. now with hiera, I was thinking having consistent, module-scoped namespacing would be a good thing, but then this scenario presented itself to my dreamspaced mind and I didn't really see a great way around it. > If one module wants a service running and another wants it stopped, there > needs to be something like a common parameter or decision point over both > modules to prevent a conflict. > > Does that make any sense or do I need to wake myself up to try for a better > answer ? Totally agree.. I don't know that there's a better answer than that. I just wasn't convinced that there's not, either. > > I am honestly trying to help out, but your statement of the problem is a bit > confuzzled [2]. > > (1) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paronomasiac > (2) http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/confuzzle > > “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in > the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” > Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) > > ----- Wolf Noble <wno...@datapipe.com> wrote: ________________________________ This message may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us immediately and delete this message. See http://www.datapipe.com/legal/email_disclaimer/ for further information on confidentiality and the risks of non-secure electronic communication. If you cannot access these links, please notify us by reply message and we will send the contents to you. -- 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.
