Ordering

[rnelson0]

This addresses the ordering in #43 and prevents errors.

[rnelson0]

@thias Have you had a chance to review this? Thanks!

[rnelson0]

@thias Bump for review

[thias]

Sorry for the looooong delay. This probably works fine when using hiera for class parameter lookup, but will break badly with the main class declared directly from puppet manifests with explicit parameter values. It also only works when you do not have a packagenamesuffix, and breaks when you do.

Wouldn't it be easier and overall better to just add require => Class['::bind::package'] to the resources which need the package to be installed?

[rnelson0]

As is, no, because the class is not contained. The class can be required but the package could come later. The alternative would be to create proper containment so that the entire class including the package resource is always processed prior to the resources that require the class. I am not sure how to use contain effectively, though.

[thias]

Ah yes, and anchors, etc. yuck.

So maybe set an alias of 'bind' on the package and just use require => Package['bind']? I'm already doing that in other modules for the same reasons.

[rnelson0]

That would probably work, I can see about trying that in a new PR tonight.

Rob Nelson
rnelson0@gmail.com

[rnelson0]

@thias So "tonight" came and went and then a few more, but I'm back on this :) Do you have an example of where you've done aliasing of packages before? I'm pretty sure it would be like so, but would love to see it in action elsewhere:

package { 'bind':
  ensure => present,
  name => $packagenameprefix,    # or the local version of $::bind::params::packagenameprefix
}

[rnelson0]

@thias Bump. Just looking for an example so I can write an accurate PR.

[thias]

An example could be my SELinux module, with the audit2allow package. It's pretty much what you wrote.

[rnelson0]

@thias Sorry for the loooong delay on this. I have the packagename from params, and the commits have been squashed. This is ready for review now.

[rnelson0]

@thias Also #46 is outstanding, not sure if you want to merge that first so we can accurately see what this might break in different versions, rather than just the puppet version I tested with locally.

[rnelson0]

@thias bump

[rnelson0]

@thias Have you had a chance to review this?

[thias]

Thanks a lot for your contributions, but no, I still haven't had time to properly review this.

The main reason is because all of my modules are focused on my own needs/environments, and "work for me"... from there I have only a limited amount of time to invest on them. The other reason is because adding features adds maintenance overhead... and the puppet rspec part is a good example : What's inside this module wasn't created by me, and I have a hard time maintaining it because I don't use proper tests as much as I should and because each time I look into them, things have changed all over the place :-/

Sorry... I have just released 0.5.3 with a single minor change, and still hope to be able to review the main pending PRs and issues, but I have no idea when that might be.

[thias]

I'll go with the simpler fix from #71 for now.