Issue #10919 has been updated by Ryan Coleman.
Thank you for the explanation, 'why' is clear now. Cheers! Stefan Schulte wrote: > The problem here is that puppet in general needs a key to identify a resource > (the resource's title) und that key has to be unique. In case of the host > type the key is the hostname. So when the provider (in case of the host type > we just have one provider: `parsed`) looks through your host file, it will > parse your local host entries like this > > [...] > > So the provider comes up with two resources called localhost and puppet will > just pick one and drop the other (that is what the message is trying to tell > you). > > I hope the cause of the message is now clear, however you are right that this > message is not very helpful. The ultimate solution is of course to somehow > support the usecase where you want to manage multiple entries in your host > file with the same name. ---------------------------------------- Bug #10919: puppet resource host generates a warning that is not clear https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10919 Author: Ryan Coleman Status: Accepted Priority: Low Assignee: Category: ralsh Target version: 2.7.x Affected Puppet version: 2.7.6 Keywords: Branch: Consider an /etc/hosts file that looks like this: <pre> [root@puppet ~]# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 192.168.121.132 puppet.puppetlabs.vm </pre> Executing 'puppet resource host' to inspect this file produces the following output: <pre> [root@puppet ~]# puppet resource host warning: Host localhost found in both parsed and parsed; skipping the parsed version host { 'localhost': ensure => 'present', host_aliases => ['localhost.localdomain', 'localhost4', 'localhost4.localdomain4'], ip => '127.0.0.1', target => '/etc/hosts', } host { 'puppet.puppetlabs.vm': ensure => 'present', ip => '192.168.121.132', target => '/etc/hosts', } </pre> What is the warning trying to tell me? I'm using a vanilla CentOS 6 machine with PE2 installed. -- 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.
