another 2.6 question... stages

[Peter Berghold]

Also in 2.6 I have started using "stages" in my setups   In my site.pp file I have something that looks like this:

stage { preamble: before => Stage[main] }
stage { postamble: require => Stage[main] }

class {
         "foo" : stage => preamble ;
         "bar": stage => postable;
}

Is it safe to assume that "foo" will always be managed during the preamble stage regardless of other definitions?


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[Daniel Pittman]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 09:26, Peter Berghold <salty....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also in 2.6 I have started using "stages" in my setups   In my site.pp file
> I have something that looks like this:
>
> stage { preamble: before => Stage[main] }
> stage { postamble: require => Stage[main] }
>
> class {
>          "foo" : stage => preamble ;
>          "bar": stage => postable;
> }
>
> Is it safe to assume that "foo" will always be managed during the preamble
> stage regardless of other definitions?

Puppet will treat a dependency that would violate that expectation as
a hard error, and emit the usual "cycle found" failure; that applies
to both your requirements and any automatic requirements, which can be
tricky to debug some of the time.

So, you can safely assume that puppet won't randomly pull "foo" out of
the preamble.

Regards,
Daniel
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