Puppet

puppet 0.24.6

Typically I have modules laid out like this:

apache::install, apache::config, apache::service

inside apache::config resources will require Class[“apache::install”] making sure all the installation tasks gets done first.

Using simple package{..} resources in the apache::install class all works as you’d hope, but on moving to virtual packages I am seeing configuration files get created before the packages gets installed, below simple manifest demonstrates the problem:

class virt {
        @file{"/tmp/file1":
                content => "file 1\n"
        }

        @file{"/tmp/file2":
                require => File["/tmp/file1"],
                content => "file 2\n"
        }
}

class prereq {
        realize(File["/tmp/file1"])
        realize(File["/tmp/file2"])
}

include virt
include prereq

file{"/tmp/file3":
        content => "file 3\n",
        require => Class["prereq"]
}

When I run this I’d expect all the resources in Class[“prereq”] to be realized, files created etc, before /tmp/file3, on running it though I get:

notice: //File[/tmp/file3]/content: created file with contents {md5}9c38e8324dbf031557c89d53a39f0b26
notice: //virt/File[/tmp/file1]/content: created file with contents {md5}e243bb39c844b3543a7726576c869caf
notice: //virt/File[/tmp/file2]/content: created file with contents {md5}4349cfeff8e2eb74dffc369bb5fd084e