Puppet

This works fine:

# cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
[main]
...
modulepath=/etc/puppet/production/modules:/etc/puppet/common/modules
templatedir=/etc/puppet/production/templates:/etc/puppet/common/templates

# puppet agent --test
...

This doesn’t work:

puppet apply init.pp --debug \
  --environment production \
  --manifest /tmp/init.pp \
  --modulepath /tmp/puppet/production/modules:/tmp/puppet/common/modules \
  --templatedir /tmp/puppet/production/templates:/tmp/puppet/common/templates

(and a variety of notations, with or without (single/double) quotes, space instead of colon, etc.)

And dies with the following error:

info: Loading facts in ...
info: Loading facts in ...

Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Could not find declared class company at /tmp/init.pp:6 on node node.example.org

Anything inside the common directories (after the colon) is ignored when using puppet apply. Thus resulting in the above error.

Probably not very useful but for the sake of completeness:

# cat init.pp
class { 'company': } # common dir
class { 'mysql': }   # production dir

Class['company'] ->
Class['mysql']

Tested on puppet versions: 2.6.7; 2.7.1; 2.7.2; 2.7.4 OS: Debian 6, clean netinstall

If anyone needs more information please let me know.