On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]>wrote:
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> Don't put $packagelist in quotes.
>
> $packagelist = Array[...]
> "$packagelist" = String(packagelist)
>
Thanks; makes sense not to use the quotes, seeing now what goes on in the
background. However, (per orig post) the result of no quotes:
... require => Package[$packagelist], ...
was the following :
> warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
... and the somewhat obscure:
> warning: Configuration could not be instantiated: wrong number of
arguments (3 for 2)
I'll keep working with it, meanwhile I've bypassed using an array just to
get it going...
> Trevor
>
> On 02/08/2011 05:34 PM, John Ingersoll wrote:
> > HI,
> >
> > I'm getting some strange errors when I try to use a variable in a require
> => Package construct, namely:
> >
> > $packagelist = ["clamav", "clamd", "clamav-db"]
> > package { $packagelist:
> > ensure => latest,
> > }
> > # Above apparently works fine...
> > # ...THEN...
> > file { "/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.mimedefang":
> > ensure => "$adminroot/mime-defang/clamd.mimedefang",
> > require => [ File["$adminroot/mime-defang"],
> > Package["$packagelist"],
> > Package["mimedefang"]
> > ],
> >
> > #....
> > getting error:
> >
> > <quote>
> > Configuration could not be instantiated: Could not find dependency
> Package[clamavclamdclamav-db] for File[/etc/rc.d/init.d/clamd.mimedefang]
> > </quote>
> >
> > As you can see, it's running the names together. If I remove the double
> quotes to be...
> > Package[$packagelist],
> > ...it tells me...
> >
> > <quote>
> > warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
> > warning: Configuration could not be instantiated: wrong number of
> arguments (3 for 2)
> > </quote>
> >
> > Similar syntax appears to be working fine in another module. What could I
> be doing wrong?
> >
> > TIA
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> > University of Georgia, Athens
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