Thanks, it was the solution that I tried after posting this. I had seen in a puppet bug something about regex matchers at either side of the inherits expression and thought that it could be possible.
I had not thought about doing the double definition, the textual one and the regex. Thanks for pointing it out. On Friday, May 11, 2012 12:15:07 AM UTC+2, jcbollinger wrote: > > > > On May 10, 12:54 pm, David Campos <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am having a strange problem matching a hierarchy of nodes like the > > following one: > > > > node basenode { > > > > > ... > > > } > > > node /^diaspora(?:-\d+)?$/ inherits basenode { > > > ... > > > } > > > node /^diaspora15(?:-\d+)?$/ inherits diaspora { > > > ... > > > } > > > > When I try to instantiate a node that should match the last one (for > > example diaspora15 or diaspora15-4433) I find that puppet matches that > node > > but is not able to match the parent node. From my knowledge of regular > > expressions (and checking though rubular), diaspora matches my first > > regular expression so the inheritance should be complete. > > > > I get the following message: > > > > Could not find parent resource type 'diaspora' of type node in > production > > > > > at /tmp/vagrant-puppet/manifests/diaspora.pp:14 on node > diaspora15.scytl.net > > > > Also, when I instantiate a node named diaspora that works.. > > > > Any idea of what I am doing wrong? I think that puppet allows that kind > of > > matching. > > > Evidently, you are mistaken. Puppet is not matching the parent node > name against your regex nodes; instead it is looking for a node > definition bearing exactly that name. Frankly, I don't find that > surprising. > > You should be able to resolve the problem with a slight juggling of > your node definitions: > > node basenode { > ... > } > > node diaspora inherits basenode { > ... > } > > node /^diaspora-\d+$/ inherits diaspora { > # empty > } > > node /^diaspora15(?:-\d+)?$/ inherits diaspora { > ... > } > > > There are other variations and altogether different approaches, too, > but that's probably the closest to what you already have. > > > John > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/ri6S-ITAoosJ. 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.
