On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 12:48:19 PM UTC-6, Weeve wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:53 AM, jcbollinger <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
> >
> > In any case, if $foo does not resolve to a class or resource reference,
> then
> > why does catalog building succeed? (Or perhaps the problem actually
> > manifests as catalog building failure....)
>
> Feels like I've been staring at the problem too long, forgetting to
> provide a little more detail here.
>
> When I have requires = $foo, the catalog does compile and $foo does
> resolve to Class['a'] or Class['b'] correctly when I look at the debug
> output from the Puppet agent (puppet agent -tv --debug).
>
> If I use the anchor method as well ($foo -> Class['a]), it wasn't
> installing it in the preferred order as well, but if I use the anchor
> method on the Service Type that Class['a'] provides in its service.pp,
> then it worked for me.
>
There seems to be a bit of a terminology gap here. Class['a'] does not
"have" a service.pp in any useful sense of the term. I suppose you
probably mean that *module* 'a' has a class or defined type "a::service"
whose definition resides in modules/a/manifests/service.pp. The
distinction matters, as does, in particular, whether a::service is a class
or a defined type. (In a typical module architecture, such a thing would
be a class.)
Moreover, it's unclear what you mean when you say you "use the anchor
method on the Service Type [...]." I can probably guess roughly what you
mean, but here, too, the details matter. We can give better answers if you
present code that actually exhibits the problem -- preferrably *minimal*
code that does so.
>
> >> This should work:
> >>
> >> $foo = "a"
> >>
> >> File["/path/to/file"] { require => Class[$foo] }
> >>
>
> This method allowed the catalog to compile as well, but didn't change
> any of the ordering issues.
>
>
My best guess at this point is that you have a class containment issue
<https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/latest/reference/lang_containment.html#containing-classes>.
That is, Puppet is very likely applying the ordering you specify, but that
doesn't have the *effect* you expect because Class['a'] and/or Class['b']
declares other classes that you consider as belonging to 'a' / 'b', but
which are not properly contained by 'a' / 'b'.
John
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