Take a look at the last paragraph here:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/lang_variables.html#assignment
$role = 'nameserver'
assigns a variable within the 'role::nameserver' namespace (allowed), while
$::role = 'nameserver'
assigns a top level variable (not allowed).
Eric
On Thursday, August 22, 2013 6:04:39 AM UTC-5, JeremyCampbell wrote:
>
> We're trying to set a role variable in one of our role classes i.e.
>
> class role::nameserver {
>
> $::role = 'nameserver'
>
> include profile::baseline
> }
>
> however we get the following error
>
> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER:
> Could not parse for environment production: Cannot assign to variables in
> other namespaces
>
> We do not get the error if we just use
>
> $role = 'nameserver'
>
> Does anyone understand what is causing this?
>
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