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Not really, I talked to lak about this in #puppet and we generally agreed that manifestdir should just get deprecated in favor of just using manifest. It should be pretty easy to test though, in your puppet configs just change manifest=/path/to/manifestdir/site.pp to manifestdir=/path/to/manifestdir/ and the environment will always be production.

I think that I had the same issue. I want to use multiple environments, but I had a problem, puppet was always looking for the default location /etc/puppet/conf/manifests/site.pp instead of /etc/puppet/conf/data//manifests/site.pp.

My configuration file looked like this:

[test] manifestdir = /etc/puppet/data/test/manifests

[preproduction] manifestdir = /etc/puppet/data/preproduction/manifests

[development] manifestdir = /etc/puppet/data/development/manifests

[production] manifestdir = /etc/puppet/data/production/manifests

[puppetmasterd] environments = test,development,preproduction,production manifest = $manifestdir/site.pp

Well, the problem was the ‘manifest’ entry in puppetmasterd. Puppet will evaluate it globally before evaluate the environments, setting manifest=/etc/puppet/conf/manifests/site.pp for all the environments.

Solution:

You can think that simply comment the line “manifest = $manifestdir/site.pp”, woudl work since it is the default, but not. Neither writing “manifest = $manifestdir/site.pp” in each environmnet stanza works. You must set the full qualified path to the site.pp: manifest = /etc/puppet/conf/data//manifests/site.pp

Indeed, I think that you can not use vars in the environment stanzas, but I have to confirm it.

You can test the values using these commands in the puppetmaster host:

$ puppetd —environment development —configprint manifest —config /etc/puppet/puppet.conf /etc/puppet/conf/manifests/site.pp $ puppetd —environment development —configprint manifest —config /etc/puppet/puppet.conf /etc/puppet/conf/manifests/site.pp

And after set the manifest in each environment stanza:

$ puppetd —environment development —configprint manifest —config /etc/puppet/puppet.conf /etc/puppet/data/development/site.pp

I read somewhere that manifestdir wil be obsolete in future versions.

This issue was assigned to a former Puppet Labs employee. Adding back to the pool of unreviewed issues.