passing argument to a class or a module

[Olivier]

I see plenty of examples of classes or modules such as ntp or sudo or
ssd. But none of these examples pass an argument to a class or a
module. If I wanted to pass the rpm name to a module or a class, what
would be the call to that class in site.pp and what would be the
class definition in init.pp?

Thank you

[Joehillen]

You can't pass arguments to classes, only defines.

[Nan Liu]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Joehillen <joeh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You can't pass arguments to classes, only defines.
>

Classes support parameters since 2.6.0, here's the documentation:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/modules2.html

Nan

[Joehillen]

whoa, my bad. I learned puppet before 2.6

Now I don't know why there is a distinction between classes and defines. I'll have to read up.

Thanks

[Olivier]

Thank you

On Jan 26, 5:48 pm, Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

[Ryan Bowlby]

Classes can only be declared once while defines can be declared
multiple times. So if you wanted two vhost files a define would be
needed.