Possible documentation error, around aliases?

[mic...@livia.co.nz]

Hi all,

The docs say:

"Note that all defined types support automatically all metaparameters."

But when I try (with Puppet 0.24.5 on Centos 5.2, courtesy of the dlutter
packages) the following:

define unzip (...) {
exec { ... }
if $alias { Exec[...]{ alias +> $alias }
}
unzip { ....: alias => "..." }

As is inferred by the LanguageTutorial to work, and as does work for
require, subscribe, etc., I get the following error message:

Parameter alias failed: Munging failed for value
["unpack_opensso_war"] in class alias: Cannot add aliases without
a catalog

This is moderately annoying; I need to depend on the definition elsewhere,
but the title of the generated resource is quite long; what's the standard
way around this problem?

-- michael.

[Luke Kanies]

This is definitely a bug -- the system is attempting to add the alias
before the catalog has been assigned.

Can you file this?

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[mic...@livia.co.nz]

Luke Kanies writes:
>> This is moderately annoying; I need to depend on the definition
>> elsewhere,
>> but the title of the generated resource is quite long; what's the
>> standard
>> way around this problem?
>
>This is definitely a bug -- the system is attempting to add the alias
>before the catalog has been assigned.
>
>Can you file this?

Sure, filed as bug # 1743.

-- michael.