Scott, I'd keep it DRY and use a definition. In fact, I use definitions for all exec calls. Here's an example that I use for wget for tar based installs. Change it to class cmd and definition of make (cmd::make) and you are good to go.
=============================================================== class download_files { define with_wget ($url,$dest,$user) { exec { $name: command => "/usr/bin/wget ${url}/${name}", cwd => $dest, creates => "${cwd}/$name", user => $user, require => Class["install_wget"] } } } =============================================================== class buildbox_step1 { $filelist = ["jdk1.6.0_16.tar","apache-tomcat-6.0.20.tar.gz","anthill3-3.7.0_50742.tar.gz"] download_files::with_wget { $filelist: url => "http://puppet.lab/puppet", dest => "$download_dir", user => "root", before => Class[buildbox_step2] } } A little obtuse up front, but I'm not cutting and pasting the same exec code all over the place and don't have to worry about name uniqueness. Ted -----Original Message----- From: puppet-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:puppet-us...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 6:52 PM To: Puppet Users Subject: [Puppet Users] Re: Same exec but different working directories Nigel, thanks! I tried something similar more than a year ago that didn't work so it didn't occur to me to try that. Scott On Oct 8, 5:52 pm, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Scott <scott...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So I ran into a situation where I'd like to execute the same command > > (make) but in 2 different working directories, anyone know how I can > > do that without adding superfluous options to the exec to make it > > unique? > > exec { "foo": > command => "make blah", > cwd => "/foo", > > } > > exec { "foo_two": > command => "make blah", > cwd => /foo_two", > > } > > is that what you mean? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---