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On 15/04/14 14:31, Mike Spreitzer wrote:
> It appears that in Fedora 19 and 20 the Wordpress examples need to
> install different packages than in every other release (see my debugging
> in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/87065/).  I just got a complaint
> from Heat validation that I can't do this:
>
>          "AWS::CloudFormation::Init" : {
>            "config" : {
>              "packages" : {
>                "yum" : {
> { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "Pkgset2Pkgs", { "Fn::FindInMap" : [
> "Distro2Pkgset", { "Ref" : "LinuxDistribution" }, "db" ] }, "client" ] }
> : [],
> { "Fn::FindInMap" : [ "Pkgset2Pkgs", { "Fn::FindInMap" : [
> "Distro2Pkgset", { "Ref" : "LinuxDistribution" }, "db" ] }, "server" ] }
> : [],
>
> because "expecting property name" at the place where the first {
> "Fn::FindInMap" ... } appears.  Am I understanding this right?  Is there
> a workable way to solve this problem?

The formatting of that config section is somewhat bizarre, and 
unfortunately leaves no workable way to solve this problem because in 
JSON a property name cannot be an object just as in Python a dict key 
cannot be a dict.

cheers,
Zane.