On 03/16/2011 11:42 AM, Greg Sutcliffe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm learning all about exported resources, and I've encountered an
> issue. Put simply, two things which logically should be same result in
> one working and one not working. I'm sure I'm missing something
> obvious, but I can't see it, so I'm someone can spot my error.
>
> The situation: I'm running stock Debian 2.6.2 on master and client. I'm
> defining a simple File export which creates a directory on another
> machine. Here's the code that works:
>
> class client {
>
> @@file{ "/mnt/backups/$hostname":
> ensure => directory,
> owner => "remotebackup",
> group => "users",
> tag => "rsync::coreserver::$region",
> }
> }
>
> class server {
> File <<| tag == "rsync::coreserver::$region" |>>
> }
>
> This works exactly as expected - the "server" machine creates a
> directory named as per the client's hostname. However, if I wrap this
> in a define(), it all goes wrong. Here's the code:
>
> class client {
> @@rsync::target{ "$hostname": tag => "rsync::coreserver::$region" }
> }
>
> class server {
> Rysnc::Target <<| tag == "rsync::coreserver::$region" |>>
> }
>
> define rsync::target() {
> file{ "/mnt/backups/$name":
> ensure => directory,
> owner => "remotebackup",
> group => "users",
> }
> }
>
> The define just wraps up the file definition so it's easier for me to
> collect the right resources in the server class. But it doesn't work.
> The server doesn't create any directories, although I can see entries
> in the storeconfig db for the rsync::target resource type. What am I
> missing?
I call possible bug on this one. I don't see an open issue that sounds
quite like this, so you may want to report this.
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/issues/new
Cheers,
Felix
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