What is wrong with this code?

[Marc]

Hi all,

The code snippet below is an isolation of the problem I am facing.

I don't understand why this produces a duplicate declaration.

Can anyone give an explanation?

$ cat test.pp 

class foo { contain foo::bar }

class foo::bar { class { 'bar': } }

class bar { notify { 'hello': } }

include foo

$ puppet apply test.pp

Error: Duplicate declaration: Class[Foo::Bar] is already declared; cannot redeclare at /home/marc/test.pp:2 on node carbon.demo.lan

Error: Duplicate declaration: Class[Foo::Bar] is already declared; cannot redeclare at /home/marc/test.pp:2 on node carbon.demo.lan

Thank you!

Marc

[Craig Dunn]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Marc <marc.vi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

The code snippet below is an isolation of the problem I am facing.

I don't understand why this produces a duplicate declaration.

Can anyone give an explanation?

$ cat test.pp 

class foo { contain foo::bar }

class foo::bar { class { 'bar': } }

class bar { notify { 'hello': } }

include foo

Within class foo::bar "bar" is being found in local scope (eg: it's declaring itself).  Thats why fully qualified is always a good way to go to be explicit about these things.  You need to explicitly require ::bar, not bar...

class foo::bar { class { '::bar': } }

Craig
 

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[Marc]

Hi Craig,

That makes sense. In fact, now I remember this is not the first time it bites me.

I'll stick a post-it in my forehead.

Thank you!