Puppet users - May 2009 - Making an entire class depend on something...

Hi guys,

Is it currently possible to do something along the lines of:

class accounts {
    require => Fact["blah"]
    ...
}

Reason I ask is that I have a custom fact for the directory to use as
the base home directory
(it varies based on OS, etc.) for user accounts. The problem I have is
that when I jumpstart
a new server and put Puppet on it, the first run doesn''t know about
the home directory fact
(it gets grabbed in from a different class - "customfacts") and as a
result all the home directories
get created in the root directory, not in /home (or /export/home)

Now I can put in a require => Fact["blah"] for every user, but that
seems somewhat excessive.
It means that for every fact that I include, I need to require that
fact for every object I use it in...
At least at a class level I can tell it what I need for that class...

Or does anyone have any other ideas on how I can tackle this?

thanks,

Greg
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2009/5/11 Greg <greg.boug@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Is it currently possible to do something along the lines of:
>
> class accounts {
>    require => Fact["blah"]
>    ...
> }
>
> Reason I ask is that I have a custom fact for the directory to use as
> the base home directory
> (it varies based on OS, etc.) for user accounts. The problem I have is
> that when I jumpstart
> a new server and put Puppet on it, the first run doesn''t know
about
> the home directory fact
> (it gets grabbed in from a different class - "customfacts") and
as a
> result all the home directories
> get created in the root directory, not in /home (or /export/home)
>
> Now I can put in a require => Fact["blah"] for every user, but
that
> seems somewhat excessive.
> It means that for every fact that I include, I need to require that
> fact for every object I use it in...
> At least at a class level I can tell it what I need for that class...
>
> Or does anyone have any other ideas on how I can tackle this?
>
> thanks,
>
> Greg

To the best of my knowledge this is still something that cannot be
done.  It did come up exactly one year ago in the somewhat infamous
thread "Philosophical Differences"[1].  You might search the
bugs/feature requests on the Reductive Labs site and if you don''t find
it you should request it, as I''m pretty sure this would be a useful
thing to have.


Cheers,

.r''

[1]: 
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/476957cb16b30986/cc0b79b6a1047a8c?hl=en&q=class+dependency&lnk=ol&

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I''m not sure if this would entirely work in your case, but
I''ve had
luck with um...excessive...includes.

If you need ''customfacts'' to be included in that class, just
include
it at the top of your ''accounts'' class.

In theory, this works properly but I haven''t tested whether or not it
slows down evaluation or execution of the manifests.

Trevor

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 20:12, Greg <greg.boug@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Is it currently possible to do something along the lines of:
>
> class accounts {
>    require => Fact["blah"]
>    ...
> }
>
> Reason I ask is that I have a custom fact for the directory to use as
> the base home directory
> (it varies based on OS, etc.) for user accounts. The problem I have is
> that when I jumpstart
> a new server and put Puppet on it, the first run doesn''t know
about
> the home directory fact
> (it gets grabbed in from a different class - "customfacts") and
as a
> result all the home directories
> get created in the root directory, not in /home (or /export/home)
>
> Now I can put in a require => Fact["blah"] for every user, but
that
> seems somewhat excessive.
> It means that for every fact that I include, I need to require that
> fact for every object I use it in...
> At least at a class level I can tell it what I need for that class...
>
> Or does anyone have any other ideas on how I can tackle this?
>
> thanks,
>
> Greg
> >
>
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