Puppet users - Nov 2008 - Possible documentation error, around aliases?

Hi all,

The docs say:

"Note that all defined types support automatically all
metaparameters."

But when I try (with Puppet 0.24.5 on Centos 5.2, courtesy of the dlutter
packages) the following:

    define unzip (...) {
        exec { ... }
        if $alias { Exec[...]{ alias +> $alias }
    }
    unzip { ....: alias => "..." }

As is inferred by the LanguageTutorial to work, and as does work for
require, subscribe, etc., I get the following error message:

    Parameter alias failed: Munging failed for value
    ["unpack_opensso_war"] in class alias: Cannot add aliases without
    a catalog

This is moderately annoying; I need to depend on the definition elsewhere,
but the title of the generated resource is quite long; what''s the
standard
way around this problem?

    -- michael.


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On Nov 7, 2008, at 4:52 PM, michael@livia.co.nz wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The docs say:
>
> "Note that all defined types support automatically all  
> metaparameters."
>
> But when I try (with Puppet 0.24.5 on Centos 5.2, courtesy of the  
> dlutter
> packages) the following:
>
>    define unzip (...) {
>        exec { ... }
>        if $alias { Exec[...]{ alias +> $alias }
>    }
>    unzip { ....: alias => "..." }
>
> As is inferred by the LanguageTutorial to work, and as does work for
> require, subscribe, etc., I get the following error message:
>
>    Parameter alias failed: Munging failed for value
>    ["unpack_opensso_war"] in class alias: Cannot add aliases
without
>    a catalog
>
> This is moderately annoying; I need to depend on the definition  
> elsewhere,
> but the title of the generated resource is quite long; what''s the
> standard
> way around this problem?

This is definitely a bug -- the system is attempting to add the alias  
before the catalog has been assigned.

Can you file this?

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Luke Kanies writes:
>> This is moderately annoying; I need to depend on the definition  
>> elsewhere,
>> but the title of the generated resource is quite long; what''s
the
>> standard
>> way around this problem?
>
>This is definitely a bug -- the system is attempting to add the alias  
>before the catalog has been assigned.
>
>Can you file this?
Sure, filed as bug # 1743.

    -- michael.

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