Puppet users - Mar 2012 - How do I quote a percent sign in the text of a template?

Hi

I am scratching my head on this not being a ruby person...

I am turning my kickstart files into templates, but am having issues with
percent signs in free form text. This returns a syntax error:
%post

OK, fine , let me escape it:

%%post

No error, but the end result is
%%post

Not quite what I wanted

I''m missing something blindingly obvious - can someone point me to it?
:-)

Thanks

John

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On 3/8/12 4:28 PM, John Warburton wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am scratching my head on this not being a ruby person...
> 
> I am turning my kickstart files into templates, but am having issues
> with percent signs in free form text. This returns a syntax error:
> %post
> 
> OK, fine , let me escape it:
> 
> %%post
> 
> No error, but the end result is
> %%post
> 
> Not quite what I wanted
> 
> I''m missing something blindingly obvious - can someone point me to
it? :-)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
John,

What is the error that you are receiving?

ERB should not have any problems with percent signs in a template. I use
the following bash function to help me with syntax checking.

# puppet template syntax checking
function pt()
{
    if [ -z $1 ]; then
        echo "usage: pt <puppet_template_file.erb>"
        return;
    fi
    /usr/bin/erb -P -x -T ''-'' $1 | /usr/bin/ruby -c
}

-g

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On 9 March 2012 09:58, Garrett Honeycutt <garrett@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On 3/8/12 4:28 PM, John Warburton wrote:
> > I am turning my kickstart files into templates, but am having issues
> > with percent signs in free form text. This returns a syntax error:
> > %post
>

ERB should not have any problems with percent signs in a template. I
use
> the following bash function to help me with syntax checking.
>
> # puppet template syntax checking
> function pt()
> {
>    if [ -z $1 ]; then
>        echo "usage: pt <puppet_template_file.erb>"
>        return;
>    fi
>    /usr/bin/erb -P -x -T ''-'' $1 | /usr/bin/ruby -c
> }
>
>
Thanks to an off list discussion, my problem was really with a line that
looked like "%post --logfile /root/ks-postinstall.log" and the
"-P" in the
pre-commit hook told erb to ignore lines starting with a "%" for
checking

I have updated the erb checks in
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Version_Controlto
include "-P"

Thanks Garrett

John

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