using $environment yaml file with pre loaded modules

[Simon]

hi,

I have a strange problem that I cant see a solution too -

I have 2 modules i want to load before main so that  network and yum are setup before the other modules load.

i have the following in manifests/site.pp  to do this

stage { 'pre' :

        before => Stage['main'],

}

node default {

        class {

                'yum': stage => 'pre';

                'network': stage => 'pre';

        }

}

my problem is that I have parameters in hiera data,  if I have them in the host specific file all is fine,  if I have any in the environment specific file they fail with

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Detected in [environment] at   /etc/puppet/modules/yum/manifests/init.pp:14

If i move the module out of pre and assign it to a node it works ok.

my hiera.yaml is

---

:backends:

  - yaml

:hierarchy:

  - "%{environment}/hosts/%{fqdn}"

  - "%{environment}/groups/%{group}"

  - "%{environment}/%{environment}"

  - global

:yaml:

  :datadir: /etc/puppet/hieradata

has anyone faced anything similar or have any suggestions

thanks

simon

[Simon]

I found that puppet does not like

  - "%{environment}/%{environment}"

if i set a variable ENV to the same and have

  - "%{environment}/%{ENV}"

it works