[Puppet-dev] Changes affecting the puppet agent talking to the master

2013-06-27 Thread Andy Parker
After having two security issues related to using YAML, it is time to move away from it on the network. We can get around the issue, for now, by using safe_yaml (which has caused some performance regressions), which is what we are doing, but the better, longer term thing is to just stop using YAML

[Puppet-dev] Re: PR hiera/137 - recursive hiera data item lookups

2013-06-27 Thread Henrik Lindberg
On 2013-27-06 18:28, Ashley Penney wrote: I hate to ask this but could you give an example here? I just made an attempt to read ARM-8 and maybe I'm just not that smart but I found it almost impossible to understand. I couldn't find anything that looked like the reusing of a subnet in other clas

Re: [Puppet-dev] Re: PR hiera/137 - recursive hiera data item lookups

2013-06-27 Thread Ashley Penney
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Henrik Lindberg < henrik.lindb...@cloudsmith.com> wrote: > >> Then you will probably like the proposal in ARM-8 that allows mapping > the parameters of one type onto another. This was added to support exactly > the case you describe; i.e. binding the parameters f

[Puppet-dev] Re: PR hiera/137 - recursive hiera data item lookups

2013-06-27 Thread Henrik Lindberg
On 2013-27-06 6:33, Wil Cooley wrote: +1 for the feature; I like Jeff's idea about using the existing sigil, although I like Henrik's nested-function-like suggestion. I think there is a particular case for this when it comes to lazy/busy sysadmins integrating 3rd party modules from Puppet Forge