Ah maybe I'm too stupid but the whole puppet dependency resolution
_seriously_ annoys me, so this is half a rant post, half a plea for someone
to enlighten me about this dependency thing puppet has going.
I have another custom define which basically contains an exe and a file
(directory). The file is not dependent on anything, but everywhere I use it
I add a "require" to the define roughly like this:
my_rsync_define { ... require => something_else_before }.
unfortunately puppet simply does not care and tries do create the directory
as the first step in the process, failing. this is not intuitive _at all_.
the dot graph (I used graphviz a lot today) tells me that the DEFINE itself
actually IS dependant on the something_else_before I added, but the
DIRECTORY WITHIN THE DEFINE ... stands alone. I personally think this is
... not great. but maybe it's because I have an old version. File
autorequires don't seem to work too well here, too, I think.
Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012 14:27:03 UTC+2 schrieb Axel Bock:
>
> Hi readers
>
> another question for my little puppet project: Can I (and if yes, how)
> define dependendies between puppet "defines"? (define like in define
> mymodule::mydefine() {...})
>
> Example: I have a define "prepare_cool_thing" and another define
> "cool_thing". Both can be on a machine several times (quite, actually, like
> vhosts :). So this is entirely valid:
>
> prepare_cool_thing{ "name1" : }
> cool_thing{ "name1" : }
>
> prepare_cool_thing{ "name2" : }
> cool_thing{ "name2" : }
>
> I'm sure you get it. BUT. I'd like to state within the cool_thing define
> that the prepare_cool_thing was executed. Can I do that? The following does
> not seem to do what I want:
>
> Prepare_cool_thing[ "name1" ] -> Cool_thing[ "name1" ] # naah, does not
> work.
>
>
> Thanks & greetings!
> Axel.
>
>
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