plugin used in different environments

Patrick Hemmer (JIRA) Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:01:14 -0800

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Patrick Hemmer commented on an issue

I've been trying to load a hiera backend via a puppet module, and after reading numerous bug reports have ended up here.
The problem I'm running into is that the hiera backend is defined in `modules/hiera-gpg/lib/hiera/backend/gpg_backend.rb`. This path is not added to the ruby $LOAD_PATH, and so trying to use the backend fails with `Notice: hiera(): Cannot load backend gpg: cannot load such file – hiera/backend/gpg_backend`.

I do not use environments at all as I think they are a very ugly solution to what they are meant to solve. But this bug still affects me as the module doesn't load.

So I'm posting this comment to provide a workaround for anyone else coming up with this issue.
My solution is to add some code at the very beginning of `site.pp` to modify `$LOAD_PATH`. Yes it's a hack, but it works.

                                                    $load_path = inline_template('<%
scope.lookupvar("::settings::modulepath").split(":").each do |mp|
  Dir.glob(mp + "/*/lib").sort.each do |mlp|
    $LOAD_PATH.unshift(mlp)
    $LOAD_PATH.uniq!
  end
end
%>')

                                                

It basically goes through every module in your `modulepath` setting and adds the lib dirs (that exist) to `$LOAD_PATH`.

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PUP-731

Quoted from a previous ticket, #4409

The key problem is that a master can’t reliably distinguish between two versions of the same native type that are used in different environments (or between an environment which uses a native type and an environment which doesn’t). This is due to the fact that native types are defined using ruby code, which the mast...

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Jira (PUP-731) Masters cannot reliably distinguish between multiple versions of a type/function/plugin used in different environments

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