Issue #5517 has been updated by Sean Millichamp.
I also have a very similar use case, prompted by the deprecation of dynamic scoping in 2.7.x which I make heavy use of to accommodate a number of variances required in our particular environment. If I could override parameters in included paramaterized classes I believe I could develop a fairly elegant option to replace what I depend on dynamic scoping for. I feel like Puppet is heading in a direction that is taking away options without providing reasonable alternatives. There is always the ENC route, but to re-implement what I currently do within the Puppet DSL with dynamic variable scoping (or what I could do if I could override parameters to parameterized classes) seems to require that I am going to need to write my own ENC (neither Puppet Dashboard nor The Foreman seem to currently support the features/flexibility I'd need) ---------------------------------------- Bug #5517: behavior change within 2.6 makes it impossible to override class parameters of "included" parametrized classes https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5517 Author: Peter Meier Status: Investigating Priority: High Assignee: Nick Lewis Category: language Target version: 2.6.x Affected Puppet version: 2.6.3 Keywords: parameterized_classes Branch: In 2.6.1 the following recipe: <pre> class a( $b_c = { 'b' => 'foo' } ) { notice $a::b_c if $a::b_c { notice $a::b_c['b'] } } class b { class{'a': b_c => false } } class b::c inherits b { Class['a']{ b_c => { 'b' => 'bleh' } } } class b::d { include ::b::c } include b::d </pre> produces the following output: <pre> $ puppet foo.pp notice: Scope(Class[A]): bbleh notice: Scope(Class[A]): bleh </pre> Which is what I expected. However with 2.6.3 it produces the following output: <pre> # puppet foo.pp notice: Scope(Class[A]): false </pre> Imho likely the changes for #4778 and #5074 are responsible for that behavior change. However this makes it impossible to overwrite parameters of a "included" parametrized class in a subclass. There are only ugly workarounds for that problem and I think this should actually work as it did within 2.6.1. Otherwise the usefulness of parametrized classes is quite reduced. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
