Please Help Me - Foreman / Smart Class Parameter / Puppet / Modules Order

[Royee Tager]

Hello all,

I really need your assistance as I'm lost.

My scenario is as follows:

1. I wrote two Puppet modules: local_repositroy & spacewalk (attached)

2. I use Foreman as ENC

3. I override the class parameters of the 2 Puppet modules with the smart class parameter option of the Foreman

4. The local_repository module configures a local repositroy which holds the RPMs for the spacewalk installation so it has to run before the spacewalk module

5. I have other modules which install other RPMs so those modules have to run only after the spacewalk module so the order should be as follows:

local_repositroy -> spacewalk -> module A

local_repositroy -> spacewalk -> module B

local_repositroy -> spacewalk -> module c

......

......

6. How do I tie it all together? I have been told, that I might need to write some kind of a wrapper but I'm not sure / know how to do it.

I really got lost and I don't know how to continue. 

Do I really need to use a wrapper?

I wrote a wrapper (attached too) but still for some reason the spacewalk module runs before the local_repositroy modue - check the attached output (please ignore the errors as I still need to copy the RPMs). Why?

Info: Applying configuration version '1414793680'

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhn-setup' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Install/Package[rhn-setup]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhn-setup' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhnsd' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Install/Package[rhnsd]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhnsd' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhn-client-tools' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Install/Package[rhn-client-tools]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhn-client-tools' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list m2crypto' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Install/Package[m2crypto]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list m2crypto' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list yum-rhn-plugin' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Install/Package[yum-rhn-plugin]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list yum-rhn-plugin' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhn-check' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Error: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Install/Package[rhn-check]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list rhn-check' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list

Notice: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Config/Exec[register-client]: Dependency Package[m2crypto] has failures: true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Config/Exec[register-client]: Dependency Package[rhnsd] has failures: true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Config/Exec[register-client]: Dependency Package[rhn-setup] has failures: true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Config/Exec[register-client]: Dependency Package[yum-rhn-plugin] has failures: true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Config/Exec[register-client]: Dependency Package[rhn-check] has failures: true

Notice: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Config/Exec[register-client]: Dependency Package[rhn-client-tools] has failures: true

Warning: /Stage[main]/Spacewalk::Config/Exec[register-client]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

Notice: /Stage[main]/Local_repository::Config/Yumrepo[xio_custom]/ensure: created

Info: changing mode of /etc/yum.repos.d/xio_custom.repo from 600 to 644

Notice: Finished catalog run in 1.20 seconds

[root@centos65 yum.repos.d]#

Do I have another option?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Royee Tager

[Felix Frank]

Hi,

your approach is not all that bad. You might want to consider adopting
Roles and Profiles.

Your "wrapper" class is essentially a role. The relationship

Class['::local_repository'] -> Class['::spacewalk']

is probably the way to go, assuming that your modules have sound
internal relations (through the Anchor Pattern or contained classes,
most likely).

As for the additional profiles you need, you can make them depend on the
spacewalk module with the same syntax.

HTH,
Felix