Problems relocating $confdir on Puppet Master

[Dan White]

Reference: http://www.mail-archive.com/puppet...@googlegroups.com/msg41278.html

Still having issues.

Even if I explicitly set confdir in the command line:

puppet agent --no-daemonize --onetime --test --noop --no-report --confdir=/etc/puppet

Manifests containing %{::settings::confdir} give me the value from the puppet-master even though the command

puppet config print confdir

on the agent returns /etc/puppet

I guess it boils does to how does one access settings on the local agent in the manifests ?

“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

[Denmat]

Well that kinda makes sense for the top scope variable on the master to return like that. Your options would be like any other fact/var you want to query on the client, no?

Den

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[Dan White]

How do I do it ?

I tried ...
confdir
::confdir
settings::confdir
and
::settings::confdir

[Dan White]

I figured it out ! Short answer: Cannot be done without customization.

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3/reference/lang_variables.html#facts-and-built-in-variables
Master-Set Variables :
$settings::<name of setting> — the value of any of the master’s configuration settings. This is implemented as a special namespace and these variables must be referred to by their qualified names. Note that, other than $environment, the agent node’s settings are not available in manifests. If you wish to expose them to the master in Puppet 3, you will have to create a custom fact.

So I am going to make a top or node level variable that I will load with hiera !