Thanks for pointing that out for two reasons: (1) In the flow of the mailing list, simple little tricks like this can flash right past you if you are not reading carefully. (2) That thread gave me a better approach for what I am doing in my class.
Thanks again, everyone ! “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Brice Figureau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 16:14 +0000, Dan White wrote: > > Sharing my stoopid mistake in the hopes of saving someone else the same > > grief: > > > > I had a boolean toggle that was not performing as expected. > > > > Long story short: I had put quotes around the word "false" > > > > class { 'foo' : boolFlag => "false" } was coming up TRUE > > > > To fix it, lose the quotes > > class { 'foo' : boolFlag => false } > > It all depends what is done with boolFlag in your parametrized class. > More specifically what doesn't work is: > > if "false" { > } > > Because a string when (internally) converted to a boolean is true. > > This was discussed 2 days ago (look when the thread changes name): > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/3dfba6566d97880e/c473deea3f302410?# > > And this is tracked in the following bug: > http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5648 > > -- > Brice Figureau > Follow the latest Puppet Community evolutions on www.planetpuppet.org! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
