Issue #8940 has been updated by Rob Terhaar.
Thanks Stefan, I tried overriding the namevar with a parameter, but that fails with a "cannot reassign, namer already taken" error. Sorry I can't dig up the actual error, I'm traveling for a few weeks and am away from the lab. ---------------------------------------- Feature #8940: host type should have an optional canonical_hostname parameter https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8940 Author: Rob Terhaar Status: Needs More Information Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.6.8 Keywords: Branch: If you compare the behavior of the Exec type to the Host type, Exec is more flexible because it has a command => parameter. This is useful if you would like to create multiple Execs with different namevars, but similar commands. When working with the Host type, I've found that the namevar becomes the "canonical_hostname", and there is no way to override this. Here's a specific example of when having multiple Host resources with the same namevar would be useful: <pre> @@host { "$fqdn": host_aliases => $hostname, ip => $private_ip_interface, tag => "normal_server_private-${region}", } @@host { "${fqdn}": host_aliases => $hostname, ip => $public_ip_interface, tag => "normal_server_public-${region}", } </pre> Since both exported resources have the same namevar, I receive a parse error: <pre>Error 400 on SERVER: Duplicate definition: Host[puppet.dev.server.com] is already defined in file /etc/puppet/modules/hosts/manifests/collect.pp at line 33; cannot redefine at /etc/puppet/modules/hosts/manifests/collect.pp:43 on node puppet.dev.server.com</pre> However, If the Host type had the ability to pass a canonical hostname (fqdn) argument, I could do: <pre> @@host { "${fqdn}-private": canonical_hostname => $fqdn host_aliases => $hostname, ip => $private_ip_interface, tag => "normal_server_private-${region}", } @@host { "${fqdn}-public": canonical_hostname => $fqdn host_aliases => $hostname, ip => $public_ip_interface, tag => "normal_server_public-${region}", } </pre> -- 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.
