Puppet users - Apr 2008 - variable containing name of current module?

Does puppet export a variable containing the name of the module
currently being processed?  That is, if i''m reading the file
"modules/ntp/manifests/whatever.pp", is there any puppet variable
containing the string "ntp"?

That''s the entire question --- here''s the context in case it
helps:

I have a wrapper function which implements a search path for files:

  config_file(i
    $owner = root,
    ...
    $module = generic,
    $source
  ) {
    file {
      $name:
        owner => $owner,
        ...
        source => [
          "${filedir}/${module}/${source}/host.${hostname}",
          "${filedir}/${module}/${source}/os.${operatingsystem}",
          "${filedir}/${module}/${source}/default"
        ];
    }
  }

Note the ${module} variable in there --- as it stands, i manually set
that variable within each relevant class:

  class ntp::client {
    Config_file {
      module => "ntp",
    }
    ...
  }

This is okay, but it would be better if there were a variable containing
the name of the current module, so that i wouldn''t have to include that
directive in every class.

Thanks much.

Chaos

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If a source is written like ''puppet:///ntp.conf'' in the
module''s manifests, won''t the client automatically pull it
from the module''s files folder?

--
Mike Renfro  / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University

-----Original Message-----
From: Chaos Golubitsky <walrus-puppet@glassonion.org>
Date: Thursday, Apr 10, 2008 12:08 pm
Subject: [Puppet Users] variable containing name of current module?
To: puppet-users@googlegroups.comReply-to: puppet-users@googlegroups.com

>Does puppet export a variable containing the name of the module
>currently being processed?  That is, if i''m reading the file
>"modules/ntp/manifests/whatever.pp", is there any puppet variable
>containing the string "ntp"?
>
>That''s the entire question --- here''s the context in case
it helps:
>
>I have a wrapper function which implements a search path for files:
>
>  config_file(i
>    $owner = root,
>    ...
>    $module = generic,
>    $source
>  ) {
>    file {
>      $name:
>        owner => $owner,
>        ...
>        source => [
>          "${filedir}/${module}/${source}/host.${hostname}",
>          "${filedir}/${module}/${source}/os.${operatingsystem}",
>          "${filedir}/${module}/${source}/default"
>        ];
>    }
>  }
>
>Note the ${module} variable in there --- as it stands, i manually set that
variable within each relevant class:
>
>  class ntp::client {
>    Config_file {
>      module => "ntp",
>    }
>    ...
>  }
>
>This is okay, but it would be better if there were a variable containing the
name of the current module, so that i wouldn''t have to include that
directive in every class.
>
>Thanks much.
>
>Chaos
>
>>
>

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On Apr 10, 2008, at 12:39 PM, Mike Renfro wrote:
> If a source is written like ''puppet:///ntp.conf'' in the
module''s
> manifests, won''t the client automatically pull it from the
module''s
> files folder?

It needs to have ''ntp'' in it:
''puppet:///ntp/ntp.conf''

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