Puppet users - Jul 2011 - package versioning by environment - best practice?

New puppet user here looking for a yay or nay on whether the current
design I''ve got is a good idea.
The main thing I''m trying to accomplish is to have a class that gets
applied to a production box and a testing box, where the only
difference between the two is the version of packages that get
installed.
The way I''ve accomplished this is to have something like

site.ini:
node "testwebbox1" {
    class { "versions": env => "test" }
    include webbox
}
node "prodwebbox1" {
    class { "versions": env => "prod" }
    include webbox
}


Then that webbox class would have package types in it that have
''ensure => "httpd-${versions::httpd}"''
The versions class would set $httpd based on that ''env''
argument that
gets passed to it.

The only other way that springs to mind of doing this is to pass the
''env'' arg to the ''webbox'' class and have it
include the versions
class. This is probably the better way anyway since webbox depends on
variables provided by the versions class. But this is still very
similar to the first method, and not an entirely new approach.

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