On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Nate <nathan.schum...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying create a custom function that will return an array of file > paths for the file type source. Instead of defining the following > array for source for each file type: > > file: { "some_file": > source => [ "puppet:///file/$hostname/path", "puppet:///file/$role/ > $mode/path", "puppet:///file/$role/path", "puppet:///file/common/ > path", ], > ... > }
In general more desirable to be explicit about the file you are distributing rather than using this pattern. Moving on to the issue. > I've created a custom function to return the generated array similar > to the following: > > file: { "some_file": > source => find_file(path), > ... > } Function seems fine: notice: Scope(Class[main]): puppet:///files/puppet/file.txt puppet:///files/my_role//file.txt puppet:///files/my_role/file.txt puppet:///files/common/file.txt notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds file: { ... should be file { "some_file": ... Are you using path as a variable instead of the actual file path? file { "some_file": source => find_file("/path/to/file"), ... } HTH, Nan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.