apply seams to ignore modulepath set in environment.conf

[Malte Finsterwalder]

Hi there,

I have a strange problem that used to work and I can't remember changing anything besides upgrading to newer versions of puppet. I use puppet 3.7.2 now.

And the config and everything looks ok to me.

Here is what happens:

When I execute:

sudo puppet apply -e "include mod::manifest"

I get an Error:

Error: Could not find class mod::manifest for .....

When I give a modulepath, everything works fine:

sudo puppet apply --modulepath /puppet/modules -e "include mod::manifest"

But the same modulepath is also configured in my environment. Here are the config files:

#############################################################################
# /etc/puppet.conf
#############################################################################
[main]
logdir=/var/log/puppet
vardir=/var/lib/puppet
ssldir=/var/lib/puppet/ssl
rundir=/var/run/puppet
factpath=$vardir/lib/facter

environmentpath = $confdir/environments
report=true
pluginsync=true

#############################################################################
# /etc/puppet/environments/production/environment.conf
#############################################################################
manifest=/puppet/manifests
modulepath=/puppet/modules

#############################################################################
# sudo puppet config print | grep module
#############################################################################
module_repository = https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com
module_working_dir = /var/lib/puppet/puppet-module
module_skeleton_dir = /var/lib/puppet/puppet-module/skeleton
module_groups = 
basemodulepath = /etc/puppet/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules
modulepath = /puppet/modules

Any ideas what is going wrong?

Like I said, I'm pretty sure this used to work a while ago. Maybe a few month at the most.

Thanks,

   Malte

[Felix Frank]

On 11/03/2014 05:35 PM, Malte Finsterwalder wrote:
>
> But the same modulepath is also configured in my environment. Here are
> the config files:
> #############################################################################

> # /etc/puppet/environments/production/environment.conf
> #############################################################################
> manifest=/puppet/manifests
> modulepath=/puppet/modules

Uh, this makes me cringe a bit.

With an

environmentpath=$confdir/environments

and

environment=production

you should really store your modules in

/etc/puppet/environments/production/modules

Then it suffices to specify the manifest directory in environment.conf

manifest=manifests

Note that this is a relative path, as it should be. Don't try and refer
to absolute paths from your environments. This can only lead to pain
down the road.

HTH,
Felix