On Jun 30, 2009, at 3:15 AM, Peter Meier wrote:

>
> Hi
>
>> I am starting work on a set of cobbler types for puppet and had a few
>> questions,
>
> cool, hope you'll release them?!
>
>> When I declare a new system in cobbler I can define multiple nics,
>> each nic can have many parameters, is there a clean way of doing this
>> in puppet, ie. if1 => eth0, mac1 => ..., if2 => eth2, mac2 => ...
>> or should I just make another type called cobbler_nic which take the
>> host system as a param and attaches it that way?
>
> hmm first I thought that maybe a parameter with an array could be a
> solution. unfortunately this wouldn't be yet that easy handable.  
> Maybe a
> seperate type (which would autorequire the system type) would be fine.

I think a separate type would be best.  I'd really like namespaces in  
native types. :/

>
> Or we would finally adapt hashmaps to be supported by the DSL, which
> would then make then parameter solution really easy. (There have been
> recently a discussion about that, see thread
> http://markmail.org/message/fykm3nj2eqqt7gfx)


You depend on that for your work, you're going to be waiting a while,  
I think, unless Bryce finds himself just amazingly bored. :)

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