On Thursday, October 25, 2012 3:33:16 PM UTC-5, danielt wrote:
Puppet expects to find a definition with this name:
> helper::files{
>
in this file:
[...] modules/helper/manifests/files.pp
>
>
> [...] I usually had the install define within the class. But puppet-lint
> didn't like this so I thought outsourcing it to its own module would work
> out.
>
I'm not sure what you mean about putting the define in its own module, but
doing so (correctly) without changing its name would have put it exactly
where Puppet was looking for it. Some people try to use "module" as a
synonym for "file", but Puppet "modules" are structured collections of
files containing class, resource, and data definitions, and arranged
according to a standard directory structure.
The definition doesn't need to be in its own module, but it should be in
its own *file* within the module (which is what puppet-lint was telling
you), and it should identify itself by its fully-qualified name. Anyone
outside the module must reference it by that fully-qualified name. Classes
and resources in the same module ought to be able to reference it by its
name relative to the module, but they *should* reference it by its
fully-qualified name, too.
John
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