----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Burgess" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:52:05 AM > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Shorten require list > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have an Exec which requires a lot of packages (15-20): > > > > Exec { 'name': > > ... > > require => [ Package['first'], Package['second'], Package['third'], ... ] > > } > > > > Is there a way to shorten this list and make it easier to read? > > 15-20 packages for one exec statement? That seems excessive. What > does that exec statement look like, at the moment, the only way I can > imagine an exec statement requiring that number of packages is by it > being a pipeline of 15 commands, each of which comes from a separate > package.
if the packages are in a class, just require Class["foo"]. If the packages are tagged by some shared name 'foo': Package<| tag == "foo" |> -> Exec["name"] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
