On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 8:01:13 AM UTC-5, Laurent CREPET wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Puppet. I'm using Puppet 3.4.3. I'm trying tried to build a
> template of file /etc/my.cnf. Puppet does not like the square brackets in
> my.cnf.erb, giving the following error:
> Error: Parameter source failed on File[/etc/my.cnf]: Could not
> understand source [mysqld]
>
> I will have a look at the Puppet Forge for modules to deal with MySQL.
> However, can we have a square bracket in a template (outside of the
> "Out-of-Scope Variables" use) ?
>
>
To the best of my knowledge, square brackets appearing in ERB template text
have no special meaning to ERB. They are just copied verbatim to the
output.
I suspect that you have written something like
file { '/etc/my.cnf'':
source => template('my.cnf.erb')
}
where what you want is
file { '/etc/my.cnf'':
content => template('my.cnf.erb')
}
The distinction is quite important: the 'source' parameter is expected to
specify a URL from which the agent get retrieve the desired file content,
whereas the 'content' property gives the content itself. (The two are
mutually exclusive.)
John
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