Re: [Puppet Users] module namespace?

2013-05-20 Thread Nikola Petrov
Well we had that problem in the past. I now name my modules with a prefix for the company first letter so if I was working for puppetlabs then I would name the module pmysql. The thing is that most of the time I want convenient wrappers for the mysql module provided by puppetlabs or some third

Re: [Puppet Users] module namespace?

2013-05-20 Thread Wolf Noble
Hi Matt, What I've seen done before is to use ${modulename}x for 'wrapper' modules that give you the ability to stay current with the forge/release/externally-owned module, but still maintain the necessary site-spectific-shim code to extend the functionality of the original module in the ways you

[Puppet Users] module namespace?

2013-05-16 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Greetings, When writing modules are people namespacing them to avoid collisions with puppetlabs' modules? I wrote some (very simple) modules: mysql postgresql that now have namespace conflicts when I am trying to install the puppetlabs modules of the same name. Is there a best practice or