Puppet users - Aug 2007 - Command line vs config file override for configuration params

Hi all

I''m working on my modular recursive Makefile & svn-backed home for
my
Puppet manifests, custom functions, types, etc.  So I''m trying to put
together individual modules, test targets and so on.

I have noticed that the $libdir (and probably the other configuration
options too) sources from puppet.conf are not overridden by specifying
--libdir=blah on the commmand line to puppet.

I can illustrate this with --configprint:

# puppet --verbose --debug --color=false --libdir=`pwd`/testlib
--configprint libdir 
/var/lib/puppet/plugins
(this comes from puppet.conf in /etc/puppet)

# sudo puppet --verbose --debug --color=false --libdir=`pwd`/testlib
--config /dev/null --configprint libdir
/users/unix/sa_dewha/SVNCheckOut/bootstrap/puppet/plugins/types/allowed/
testlib
(this is as intended, off my cwd)

The libdir setting is in the [main] section of puppet.conf.  I could
also move this out to [puppetmasterd], but I''d rather not, as often
puppet will be invoked with a requirement for the custom things in
/var/lib/puppet/plugins.

I can work around it with --config /dev/null but is this intended
behaviour?  I will file a bug report if necessary.

Many thanks,
Derek
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On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:12 AM, <Derek.Whayman@barclayscapital.com>  
<Derek.Whayman@barclayscapital.com> wrote:
> I can work around it with --config /dev/null but is this intended
> behaviour?  I will file a bug report if necessary.
It''s not intended behaviour.  I think it''s part of a bug
we''ve
already discovered and filed, but feel free to file it and we can  
make sure.

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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Derek.Whayman@barclayscapital.com wrote:
> I have noticed that the $libdir (and probably the other configuration
> options too) sources from puppet.conf are not overridden by specifying
> --libdir=blah on the commmand line to puppet.
Fixed in 0.23.2 - I had the same problem last week, updating fixes it.

--Mark

Where have you got the RPMs from?  Can''t see them on EPEL or David
Lutterkort''s people page.

Derek 

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Subject: Re: [Puppet-users] Command line vs config file override for
configuration params

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Derek.Whayman@barclayscapital.com wrote:
> I have noticed that the $libdir (and probably the other configuration 
> options too) sources from puppet.conf are not overridden by specifying
> --libdir=blah on the commmand line to puppet.
Fixed in 0.23.2 - I had the same problem last week, updating fixes it.

--Mark

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On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 15:55 +0100, Derek.Whayman@barclayscapital.com
wrote:
> Where have you got the RPMs from?  Can''t see them on EPEL or David
> Lutterkort''s people page.
For RHEL, they''re on my people page (and I just built them into EPEL,
forgot that for some reason)

For Fedora, they are built, and will show up on a mirror near you real
soon now (for some reason, the fc7 packages is stuck in updates-testing
even though I requested to have it pushed to updates, need to find out
what is happening there)

If anybody needs Fedora RPM''s on my page, let me know and I''ll
throw
them up there.

David