Re: [Puppet Users] can not use $caller_module_name

Nan Liu
Sun, 13 Feb 2011 04:40:18 -0000

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:06 AM, flex <frostynova@gmail.com>
wrote:
> This is my puppet script:
> modules/redarrow/manifests/add.pp:
> define redarrow::add($type = "file") {
>     file { "/etc/redarrow.conf/$name.conf":
>         owner => "root",
>         group => "root",
>         mode => 644,
>         source => $type ? {
>             "file" =>
"puppet:///modules/$caller_module_name/redarrow.conf",
>             default => undef,
>         },
>         content => $type ? {
>             "template" =>
template("$caller_module_name/redarrow.erb"),
>             default => undef,
>         },
>     }
> }
> modules/portage/manifests/init.pp:
> redarrow::add {test_portage: }
> Result:
>
(/Stage[main]/Portage/Redarrow::Add[test_portage]/File[/etc/redarrow.conf/test_portage.conf])
> Could not evaluate: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid module name; module names
> must be alphanumeric (plus ''-''), not
''redarrow.conf'' Could not retrieve file
> metadata for puppet:///modules//redarrow.conf: Error 400 on SERVER: Invalid
> module name; module names must be alphanumeric (plus
''-''), not
> ''redarrow.conf'' at
/home/flex/puppet/modules/redarrow/manifests/add.pp:14

What version of puppet are you using? This is limited to 2.6.x.

> It seems that the variable $caller_module_name is not set, then i found
> another stange thing, i got what i want like this:
> define redarrow::add($module = $name, $type = "file") {
>     file { "/etc/redarrow.conf/$name.conf":
>         owner => "root",
>         group => "root",
>         mode => 644,
>         source => $type ? {
>             "file" =>
"puppet:///modules/$module/redarrow.conf",
>             default => undef,
>         },
>         content => $type ? {
>             "template" =>
template("$module/redarrow.erb"),
>             default => undef,
>         },
>     }
> }
> the $name in varaible list of the define is not the same as the $name below
> which is the resource name, it is this a bug or a hidden feature?

$name is in scope within {..}. However this is fixed in 5061 which
will be released in 2.6.5 (currently rc2):
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5061

Thanks,

Nan