default node (was: Re: Template Nodes considered harmful)

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On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Digant C Kasundra wrote:
> First, thanks to David for the updates to Wiki.

My pleasure :)

> Second, is the default node still valid and working?  I didn't capture this
> in my Best Practice but we do have a node default that was inheriting from
> node basenode, so I'm thinking it should now include class baseclass.  How
> is the default node handled with external node definitions?

- From the sample templates.pp on PuppetBestPractise:

| node default {
|     include baseclass
| }

AFAIK, the default node is only applied when there is no named node found. I 
would expect that external node classifying would override this behaviour 
too.


Regards, David
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