Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet 2.6.2 - Ordering Issue

[Nan Liu]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:15 AM, xkrantz <xkr...@viadeoteam.com> wrote:
> Hi every one,
>
> First, I'm really sorry if this topic has already been discussed over and over again but it is not so easy to parse and search the web about this, according to the different versions of puppet.
>
>
>
> So, I'm using Puppet 2.6.2 that ships with Debian Squeeze.
> (We are not yet ready for puppet 2.7.x).
>
>
>
> I'm trying to order classes due to depencies issue and I'am assuming that ordering is recursive (Every thing in class b won't be done before class a)
>
>
> So I'have tried several syntaxes but in any case, it fails :
>
>
> Syntax 1
> =========
>
> class myClass {
>
> class {'a':
> ...
> }
> ->
> class {'b':}
>
> }
>
>
> Syntax 2
> =========
>
> class myClass {
>
> ## Ordering
> Class['a'] -> Class['b']
>
> ## Declaring
> class {'a':
> ...
> }
>
> class {'b':}
>
> }
>
> Syntax 3
> =========
>
> class myClass {
>
> class {'a':
> ...
> }
>
> ## Use metaparameter
> class {'b':
> require => Class['a'],
> }
>
> }
>
>
>
> In every cases, when the client is applying the catalog, resources / types from (or included in) class 'b' are realized before these from class 'a'...
>
> And Yes, I'have checked that none of the resources in class 'b' require one of class 'a'.
>
>
>
> So is it possible ? Do I have to upgrade my Puppet master ?

The syntax is correct, and if your classes only contain resources it
should work, otherwise it's a bug. There's a class containment issue
and anchors in stdlib have been the way to get around it until some
definitive solution comes up. This ticket describes this pretty well
with some examples: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/8040

Nan