Rob Nelson wrote:
> Modeling state can be tricky. It's pretty easy for a human to
> understand conditionals like "If a package is installed, install a
> file," but for state modeling, resources are best defined as either
> managed or unmanaged, not somewhere in between. It's important to
> keep
I think it's important to note that CMs like Puppet only manage what you
tell it to manage via your state description. "If openssh-server is
installed" doesn't fit that model well because it has a conditional state
based on a potentially unmanaged component. "I want to manage the package
Craig Dunn wrote:
> Given the above, what are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to
> manage the file resource after the package resource, or are you
> saying you only want to manage the file if the package exists on the
> target system?
The latter. If openssh-server is installed, copy the
>From reading your comments I think maybe you are misunderstanding what the
defined() function does. This function is run *server side* during the
compilation of the catalog and is saying "If this Puppet resource exists in
the catalog, yet". It is not saying "If this resource is configured on
Rob Nelson wrote:
> Your code only shows one package, $package, being created, but it
> does not show where the value for $package is set. Either that var
The package block is missleading, it just installs fail2ban:
$package = $::operatingsystem ? {
/(?i:Ubuntu|Debian|Mint)/ =>
Your code only shows one package, $package, being created, but it does not
show where the value for $package is set. Either that var has the value
'postfix', or the postfix package is managed in another file. Regardless,
there is nothing showing where a package called $sshdPackage is managed
here,
Hi,
I want to copy files if a package is installed. What works fine with
the packages 'postfix', 'fail2ban' and 'apache2' does not with
'openssh-server.
class fail2ban {
$postfixPackage = $::operatingsystem ? {
/(?i:Ubuntu|Debian|Mint)/ => 'postfix',
default =>
