Puppet Modules from Forge

[jim]

Hello all,

I have some questions about the download puppet modules from puppetforge: 

I'll take puppetlabs-dism as an example, once its installed its located:

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/dism

Can this be renamed to something else ? 

Also if for example, I had a folder tree under modules e.g.

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/windows

|

|- manifests

|--base.pp

|--networking.pp

Can I move the DISM module folder under my windows folder ?

then I assume i'd call it by windows::dism?

Regards

James

[Ryan Coleman]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:55 AM, jim <str...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I have some questions about the download puppet modules from puppetforge: 

I'll take puppetlabs-dism as an example, once its installed its located:

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/dism

Can this be renamed to something else ? 

Also if for example, I had a folder tree under modules e.g.

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/windows

|

|- manifests

|--base.pp

|--networking.pp

Can I move the DISM module folder under my windows folder ?

You absolutely can, but you'd need to rename each class to windows::classname. You'd also lose the ability to cleanly upgrade the module from the Puppet Forge. 

Have you considered creating a modulepath specifically for your Windows content and organizing things that way? Here's more on that. http://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/2.7/reference/modules_fundamentals.html#the-modulepath

Cheers, 

--Ryan

 

then I assume i'd call it by windows::dism?

Regards

James

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[Nan Liu]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:55 AM, jim <str...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I have some questions about the download puppet modules from puppetforge: 

I'll take puppetlabs-dism as an example, once its installed its located:

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/dism

Can this be renamed to something else ? 

Also if for example, I had a folder tree under modules e.g.

/etc/puppetlabs/puppet/modules/windows

|

|- manifests

|--base.pp

|--networking.pp

Can I move the DISM module folder under my windows folder ?

This particular module is just a type/provider with no puppet manifest so you can move the lib dir to another module.

 

then I assume i'd call it by windows::dism?

No, the resource is still called dism, because it's the name of the type and moving the lib dir won't change this.

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-dism/blob/master/lib/puppet/type/dism.rb#L1

You can write your own custom define resource called windows::dism which wraps the native dism resource. This is typically done if you need environment defaults.

HTH,

Nan 

[jim]

Thanks Guys for your advise and knowledge