[Puppet-users] dependency and communication between defined classes

[ADNET Ghislain]

Hi,

 i wanted to know how you handle case when classes or define need to 
communicate between them. For exemple i got an ftpd define and a 
apachevhost define. Both need to know the path where the vhost is set 
and this path is defined by the ftpuser home's directory. How can i ask 
information from other define or other classes ?  we allready seen that 
tag are not reliable as they depend on the order the parser read them.

  For exemple how to say that a define requires another define  as a 
requirement ( i think of the ftpuser define that creates a ftp user 
account and the ftpdaemon define that is used to configure the ftp 
daemon and the define that create the apache vhost ,it need the ftpuser 
to be created before and the ftpuser define  need that the ftpdaemon 
exist before ...).

  i also tried to make a define inside another define but i cannot. I 
have seen the syntax xx::yy to acces some data but when is this usable ? 
What data can be read between part of the recipes ?

  I see my recipe getting more complex and i am a little lost on how 
they can interact with each others. Any ideas/hint on this side ?

-- 
Cordialement,
Ghislain
 

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