I usually do this within the manifest itself. For example:
if $facts['osfamily']!='RedHat'{fail("$operatingsystem is not supported")}
On Tuesday, August 22, 2017 at 7:34:12 AM UTC-4, plapp...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Good morning :)
>
> I'm currently writing a puppet module for the OpenBSD specific
> implementation of SNMPd, and was wondering if there is any elegant way for
> the module to fail on unsupported operating systems?
>
> With the params.pp-pattern, you can fail as the default of the OS-specific
> configuration; but how would I do this with the data comes via Hiera from
> the module itself (
> https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/4.10/hiera_migrate_modules.html#module-data-with-yaml-data-files
> )?
>
> Of course I can simply leave the common.yaml empty and the module will
> fail with missing variables, but I'd rather have a helpful error message
> about an unsupported OS (which will be less confusing, should this module
> be used by someone else but me).
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jake
>
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