Puppet users - Feb 2008 - exported resource confusion ..

I am attempting to implement exported resources for several things, eg. 
nagios, backuppc, etc., but i am confused by the results i am seeing. 
puppet version is 0.24.1 and os is CentOS 5.1.

The following should, i think, create a virtual exported
''file'' resource
on "node1", "node2" and "node3", and only
"node1" and "node3" should
actually create the file on the filesystem.

    class test1 {
      file { "/tmp/puppet.testing1": ensure => directory, purge
=> true,
    recurse => true }
      @@file { "/tmp/puppet.testing1/${fqdn}": content =>
"${fqdn}", tag
    => "testing1" }
    }
    class test2 {
      file { "/tmp/puppet.testing2": ensure => directory, purge
=> true,
    recurse => true }
      @@file { "/tmp/puppet.testing2/${fqdn}": content =>
"${fqdn}", tag
    => "testing2" }
    }

    node node1 { include test1,test2
                 File <<| tag == "testing1" |>>
               }
    node node2 { include test1,test2 }
    node node3 { include test1,test2
                 File <<| tag == "testing2" |>>
               }


But "node1" and "node3" only get the resource they created
themselves
and not the two other nodes.

If I remove the ''tag == "testing"'' then all
resources are collected.

    node node3 { include test
                 File <<| |>>
               }


Problem with that is of course that the "node3" should not have the 
files from Class["test1"].

Am i missing something?

Ben

On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:32 PM, Ben wrote:
> But "node1" and "node3" only get the resource they
created themselves
> and not the two other nodes.
>
> If I remove the ''tag == "testing"'' then all
resources are collected.
>
>    node node3 { include test
>                 File <<| |>>
>               }
>
>
> Problem with that is of course that the "node3" should not have
the
> files from Class["test1"].
>
> Am i missing something?

The tagging currently only works if you explicitly add tags to the  
resources themselves, rather than relying on the automatic tags.  I  
think I''ve committed DavidS''s fix for this, so it should work
in the
next release.

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