Re: [Puppet Users] Depending on a class from a class?

Nigel Kersten
2010-12-01T15:03:24Z

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Daniel Piddock
<dgp-goog@corefiling.co.uk> wrote:
>  On 01/12/10 09:57, Daniel Piddock wrote:
>>  On 30/11/10 18:07, Eric Sorenson wrote:
>>> Minimally in your current code change ''include
repositories::debian'' to
''require("repositories::debian")'' - this is a
built-in function that does an include-plus-require and will produce the
ordering you want  (Thanks to Jeff Mccune for pointing me at this)
 http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/function.html#require
>> require was the function I was looking for. So obvious and documented.
>
> It appears that I was a little too early in my celebration.
>
> "require $class" causes you to import the class, however no
dependency
> is then placed on the *contents* of said class. I''m in exactly the
same
> position. If I have "require => Class[repository::fedora]"
instead of
> just "require => Class[repository]" in the Package definition
I get the
> results desired. This strikes me as a design flaw.

It sounds like you don''t have a relationship defined between
Class[repository] and Class[repository::fedora] ?

Setting up a relationship with the former does not imply a
relationship with the latter.

>
> I tried the puppet 2.6.3 gem but it still performs in the same fashion.
>
> I''ll try generating some simplified configs in a test environment
and
> file a bug report. Then I''ll redesign everything else.
>
> Dan
>
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