Re: Boolean expressions

The complication (and apologies for the lousy Outlook-style quoting) is
that if $group was set to anything other than "root" then it should be
left alone.

I've tried the obvious stuff like:

  if $group = "root" and $operatingsystem = "freebsd" {}

(with variations of "==" and "&&", because even that doesn't appear to
be documented, the only example in the docco is of the "if $var {}"
form).

I've also tried:

  if $group = "root" {
    $group = $operatingsystem ? {
      "freebsd" => "wheel",
      "default" => "root"
     }
  }

But that's failing on the initial if too so clearly I need to figure
that bit out first.

Had trouble with something similar last week and cheated by using "case"
instead, but I'd rather just get this right.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: puppet-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:puppet-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Phillips
Sent: Monday, 29 October 2007 4:55 PM
To: Puppet User Discussion
Subject: Re: [Puppet-users] Boolean expressions

>>>>> "Matt" == McLeod, Matt <Matt.McLeod@xxxxxxx> writes:

    Matt> The big hitch now is that FreeBSD, of course, doesn't do the
    Matt> "root" group.  It wants "wheel".  So I figure what I want to
    Matt> do is take a look at $group and $operatingsystem, and if
    Matt> need be translate "root" to "wheel".  I really don't want to
    Matt> be specifying the group on every file.

I think (me newbie) you want the following ,
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/LanguageTutorial#selectors
:-

  group => $os ? {
        freebsd   => "wheel",
        default   => "root",
    }

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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