Hi John,
Thanks for replying. I tried using contain.
class profile::base {
contain '::yum::repo::epel'
contain '::yum::repo::puppet'
}
Still didn't work for me. Is there a possibility of known bug being
triggered?
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:41 PM, jcbollinger <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 7:59:00 AM UTC-6, Abhijeet Rastogi wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> class profile::base {
>> anchor { 'base_repos_start': }
>> class { '::yum::repo::epel': require => Anchor['base_repos_start']}
>> class { '::yum::repo::puppet': require => Anchor['base_repos_start']}
>> anchor { 'base_repos_end': }
>> }
>>
>>
> [...]
>
>
>>
>>
> I think I'm using anchor patterns correctly but they don't seem to be
>> working. Is there anything that I'm doing fundamentally wrong? Any possible
>> reasons this might not be working?
>>
>>
>
> Yes. Contrary to your assertion, you are not using the anchor pattern
> correctly. Your contained classes are related only to the starting anchor,
> not to the ending anchor. Correct use of the anchor pattern would look
> more like this:
>
> class profile::base {
> anchor { 'base_repos_start': }
> class { '::yum::repo::epel': require => Anchor['base_repos_start'],
> before => Anchor['base_repos_end'] }
> class { '::yum::repo::puppet': require => Anchor['base_repos_start'],
> before => Anchor['base_repos_end'] }
> anchor { 'base_repos_end': }
> }
>
> If you are using a sufficiently recent Puppet, however, then you should
> instead use the new(ish) 'contain()' function
> <https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.4.stable/function.html#contain>.
> In full generality that would look like this:
>
> class profile::base {
> class { '::yum::repo::epel': }
> class { '::yum::repo::puppet': }
> contain '::yum::repo::epel'
> contain '::yum::repo::puppet'
> }
>
> Since your classes don't (any more) require any parameters to be specified
> in your manifests, however, you can shorten that further to simply
>
> class profile::base {
> contain '::yum::repo::epel'
> contain '::yum::repo::puppet'
> }
>
>
> John
>
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