Puppet users - Apr 2013 - Solutions to Learning Puppet Exercises?

Hello Everyone in the Puppet World,

I''m fairly new to Puppet.  I''m still learning the basics.  I
actually just
got done completing the learning section covering variables, conditionals, 
& facts over on this page: <
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/variables.html>


Here''s my situation... I''ve completed the exercises near the
bottom of the
page.  I''m not sure if my manifests are right or not.  Am I writing the
code properly?  Do I have the concept down?  It is hard to tell.  Is there 
a place online we can find solutions?  Would anyone be willing to look over 
my code?  


ANY help would be greatly appreciated!

For the first exercise:  Use the $operatingsystem fact to write a manifest 
that installs a build environment on Debian-based (“debian,” “ubuntu”) and 
Enterprise Linux-based (“centos,” “redhat”) machines. (Both types of system 
require the gcc package, but Debian-type systems also require 
build-essential.)

I have attached a screenshot of my code here...

Have I done this correctly?  Is anything missing?  Thank you in advance!

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For the solutions to the exercises I would send an email to 
faq@puppetlabs.com as stated on the first page of ''Learning
Puppet''. I
think it would be good to make them available.

For your case, it is not quite what it should be. But as there are many 
things to learn, you''ll get there.

First thing is just for cleaner code, you can shorten duplicate entries 
to one line, like this:

case $operatingsystem {
   centos, redhat: { $gcc = ''gcc'' }
}

As you can see, I also single quoted the variable, because that''s 
according to the Style Guide[1]. I see that this is wrong in the example 
as well.

Second point, is that you can''t really use require like that. Maybe the
text pointed you in the wrong direction, what it means is that 
Debian-type systems actually need two packages. So for the code this 
would mean:

case $operatingsystem {
   centos, redhat: { $gcc = ''gcc'' }
   debian, ubuntu: { $gcc = [ ''gcc'',
''build-essential'' ] }
}

You assigned an array to $gcc, and the package resource will use both of 
the values in the array.

[1]: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html

On 04/04/2013 09:15 PM, HassanzDaName wrote:
> Hello Everyone in the Puppet World,
>
> I''m fairly new to Puppet.  I''m still learning the basics.
I actually
> just got done completing the learning section covering variables,
> conditionals, & facts over on this page:
> <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/variables.html>
>
>
> Here''s my situation... I''ve completed the exercises near
the bottom of
> the page.  I''m not sure if my manifests are right or not.  Am I
writing
> the code properly?  Do I have the concept down?  It is hard to tell.  Is
> there a place online we can find solutions?  Would anyone be willing to
> look over my code?
>
>
> ANY help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> For the first exercise: Use the $operatingsystem fact to write a
> manifest that installs a build environment on Debian-based (“debian,”
> “ubuntu”) and Enterprise Linux-based (“centos,” “redhat”) machines.
> (Both types of system require the |gcc| package, but Debian-type systems
> also require |build-essential|.)
>
> I have attached a screenshot of my code here...
>
> Have I done this correctly?  Is anything missing?  Thank you in advance!
>
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