Puppet users - Apr 2014 - Duplicate hiera hashes in the same data source override instead of merge

Hi folks,

In my common.yaml file I have the following hiera hashes:

system::packages:
    sshd:
        ensure: 'present'
    ...
...
more stuff here
...
system::packages:
    ntpd:
        ensure: 'present'

I naively assumed that Hiera would merge those 2 hashes together, just as
it does if they were present in different layers of the hierarchy.  It
appears, though, that the latter simply overrides the former;  I have an
sshd service with a dependency on the sshd  package, but with the above
hiera data, the catalog fails to compile as the sshd package isn't in the
catalog.

Am I just missing some YAML syntax to stop the hash from being overwritten,
or am I perhaps misunderstanding the behaviour I'm seeing here? I did test
manually merging the hashes in the YAML file and that did indeed 'fix'
the
problem.

If that behaviour is simply a fact of life, that's fine too; I'll fix
the
data up, although there was an aesthetic/organisational reason for having
it structured as it is currently.

Thanks,

Matt.

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