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Hello, i was unable to modify the docs to ass for: http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageStructures#Assignment the fact that you can call a variable ${<name>} in case of conflicting syntax and latter http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageStructures#Conditionals to add the fact that the "if" coditionnal exist. Could it be added by someone who has the rights o...

I thought the purpose of classes was that you could redefine types in the subclasses. However I get "Duplicate definition" errors whenever I attempt this. On a whim I tried the code from the documentation: http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/documentation/structures.html --- Subclassing The primary benefit of using subclasses instead of just including the parent class is that

The language docs have been languishing for ages, so out of disgust I consolidated the LanguageStructures and LanguageTutorial pages into a new, rewritten LanguageTutorial[1] page. Let''s consider this page the single page for all language explanation, and let''s do what we can to enhance and correct this page over time. I think the existence of two pages confused things bef...

...ually, I think that may just work. Is this a sensible way to go? I guess it would still be useful to use AND and OR ... Nb, I came up with this idea after looking at the svnserve example given in the Components section on the Language Structures page: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageStructures#Components Cheers Jesse

Hello I am thinking that it is better to do a cvs export of a project once, on the puppetmaster box, rather than do the same cvs export on all puppet clients, yes? If so, how does one do this? Do you run puppetd on the same box as puppetmasterd and set up the cvs export as an exec for only the node with the same hostname as the puppetmaster? Thanks Jesse Jesse Reynolds Virtual

How can I express the following in puppet? $http_conf = "/etc/http/conf/httpd.conf" $vhosts_conf = "/etc/http/conf/vhosts.conf" @files = ("$httpd_conf", "$vhosts_conf") foreach f (@files) { file { "$f": owner => root, group => root, mode => 664, source => "puppet://$server/apache/$f", }

I finally got my cfengine configs all objectified and separated into service-based configurations. But there are still many things that cfe can''t or won''t do very well, so I''m looking for a replacement. What about puppet? I am looking for something that I can use to manage services and applications, not hosts and files. It seems like puppet may have inherited some of