Puppet users - Mar 2010 - hard to define

Hi all.

I am trying to use debian package preseeding within my modules.
Therefor I have created a preseed_package.pp like:

define authentication::preseed_package ( $ensure ) {
	file { "/var/local/preseed/$name.preseed":
		source => "$module_path/files/$name.preseed",
		mode => 600,
		backup => false,
		require => File["/var/local/preseed"],
	}
	package { "$name":
		ensure => $ensure,
		responsefile => "/var/local/preseed/$name.preseed",
		require => File["/var/local/preseed/$name.preseed"],
	}
}

First of all I would like to know if it''s possible to use variables
within the define statement, e.g.:

define $module_name::preseed_package

This would make the define much more flexible as I could then just
copy it over to the other modules if necessary.

But now to the main question: as you can see from above, the file
deployment requires a directory /var/local/preseed/ to be present.

I wonder what''s the best way to create this directory? Within the
init.pp of the specific module, e.g ?.:

class authentication {
        # general module settings
        $module_name = "authentication"
        $module_path = "$puppet_standalone/modules/$module_name"

        # preseed functionality
        file { "/var/local/preseed":
                owner => root, group => root, mode => 755,
                ensure => "directory",
        }


}

Or perhaps even at the top of preseed_package.pp?

Best Regards
Marcus

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Hi Marcus,

On 16 mrt, 14:26, Marcus Moeller <mmoel...@econet.ch>
wrote:
> First of all I would like to know if it''s possible to use
variables
> within the define statement, e.g.:
>
> define $module_name::preseed_package
>
> This would make the define much more flexible as I could then just
> copy it over to the other modules if necessary.
Not directly, although I wrote about a way to create the same idea a
few months ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/c37707bcedb2d0bd

I''ve been using this extensively and it seems to work just fine.
> I wonder what''s the best way to create this directory? Within the
> init.pp of the specific module, e.g ?.:
I''d use the following:

if ! defined(File["/var/local/preseed"]) {
  file { "/var/local/preseed":
                owner => root, group => root, mode => 755,
                ensure => "directory",
        }
}

Because ordering is not an issue here.

Hope this helps!

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Kind regards,
Tim

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