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Confusing example #2

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nibalizer opened this issue Sep 24, 2013 · 2 comments
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Confusing example #2

nibalizer opened this issue Sep 24, 2013 · 2 comments

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@nibalizer
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https://github.com/hlindberg/misc-puppet-docs/blame/master/data-in-modules.md#L534

What is DCR_nbr? I've never heard of this? Is it a fact? Is it just nonsense that is meant to be incomparable with modulepath? If so, that should be footnoted or something.

@hlindberg
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It should say that it is a "custom fact related to the organizations inventory system" - i.e. something we do not know what it is. (it is fictional). If you have a better suggestion I can change. What I did not want was something where the reader says "well, there is another way to get around that particular problem...", just because I happened to pick a fact that carries some special meaning...

@hlindberg
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Changed the text to read:

Imagine trying to combine the data contributions from two modules with the following (Hiera-1) hierarchies (where we have no clue what the variable 'DCR_number' is, more than it is a custom fact introduced by the module):

Fixed in next revision.

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