Puppet users - Nov 2010 - plusignment to add values to a resource several times

Hi,

Has any work been done or is any work being planned to allow plusignment
to add values to a resource several times?

This has been discussed before at

https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/b276948477fa14ae

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2825

My immediate use case is the same as Bryan''s in the previous
discussion.
I would like to have puppet manage some users that represent human
beings that logged in to systems, and I need to be able to add them to
different combinations of groups on different systems. To make things
clearer, I''ll paste Bryan''s test case below.

node testnode {
  include user::groupA
  include user::groupB

}

class user::groupA inherits user::virtual {
        User["bryan"]   { groups +> "groupA" }
        User["bob"]     { groups +> "groupA" }

        realize(
                Group["groupA"],
                User["bryan"],
                User["bob"],
        )

}

class user::groupB inherits user::virtual {
        User["harry"]   { groups +> "groupB" }
        User["bryan"]   { groups +> "groupB" }

        realize(
                Group["groupB"],
                User["harry"],
                User["bryan"],
        )

}

class user::virtual {
    @user { "bryan":
        uid     => 1001,
        gid     => 1001,
    }

    @user { "bob":
        uid     => 1002,
        gid     => 1002,
    }

    @user { "harry":
        uid     => 1003,
        gid     => 1003,
    }

}

This fails with "Could not retrieve catalog: Parameter
''groups'' is
already set on User[bryan] by user::groupA" in 0.24.8. I don''t
have a
newer puppet version to easily test with, unfortunately.

-- 
Brian Pitts
Systems Administrator | EuPathDB Bioinformatics Resource Center
706-542-1447 | bdp@uga.edu | http://eupathdb.org

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I have hit a similar issue. Does anybody know if this is going to be fixed 
or some workaround present?

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On 03/04/2011 05:03 PM, Vladimir Kulev wrote:
> I have hit a similar issue. Does anybody know if this is going to be
> fixed or some workaround present?
I can reproduce with 2.6.4.

Currently, your best bet is probably the wooden hammer approach.

class user::groupA inherits user::virtual {
        User<| title == "bryan" |>   { groups +>
"groupA" }
        User<| title == "bob" |>     { groups +>
"groupA" }

I''m not sure this works in 0.24.8. I strongly advice to move away from
0.24.x (are you on Debian 5?) under any circumstances (use backports etc.).

This is rather fugly and your original approach should definitely work
at some point as far as I''m concerned.

Cheers,
Felix

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