On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Ryan Stewart <zzant...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 28, 11:33 am, Nigel Kersten <ni...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Ryan Stewart <zzant...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 5:00 pm, Ryan Stewart <zzant...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Before jumping into hiera, I was trying to get a feel for extlookup() > > > > with CSV files because it looked pretty simple, but I can't seem to > > > > make it work. > > > > > nm. I figured out what I was doing wrong. > > > > What was it Ryan? Is there something we could do to improve the docs > here? > > > I believe the problem was that I was doing the extlookup() outside of > any class, and I recently converted my puppet project to a module, > which I'm running with "puppet apply -e 'include ...'", which, I > assume, would only run things inside of classes and not other stuff in > the manifests where the classes are. Therefore the lookup was never > being done in the first place, explaining the complete lack of any > debugging information. I'm still trying to feel my way around how > things should be organized, and this had to roll around in my head a > while before I made the connection. > > ahah. Yeah, I've actually been thinking about this usability problem recently. If you have DSL code outside a class within a .pp file, if you use puppet apply /path/to/my.pp you only evaluate the code outside the class. If you use puppet apply -e 'include myclass' you only evaluate the code inside the class. -- Nigel Kersten Product Manager, Puppet Labs -- 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.
