Jira (PUP-5921) Deprecate source_permissions

[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

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Josh Cooper commented on PUP-5921   Re: Deprecate source_permissions There is no way to have non executable files in a recursive file definition since directories must have execute permissions. That's not quite true. If you set the mode to 0640 for the initial directory, then puppet will make sure all directories are also executable. For example given: class recurse { file { '/tmp/recurse': ensure => directory, mode => '640', recurse => true, source => 'puppet:///modules/recurse', } } Where the module contains: # tree -p /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/recurse/files /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/recurse/files └── [drwxr-xr-x] dir └── [drwxr-xr-x] dir └── [-rw-r-----] file Will produce: # puppet agent -t Info: Using configured environment 'production' Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Retrieving locales Info: Loading facts Info: Caching catalog for localhost Info: Applying configuration version '1535560649' Notice: /Stage[main]/Recurse/File[/tmp/recurse]/ensure: created Notice: /Stage[main]/Recurse/File[/tmp/recurse/dir]/ensure: created Notice: /Stage[main]/Recurse/File[/tmp/recurse/dir/file]/ensure: defined content as '{md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' Notice: Applied catalog in 0.09 seconds and the resulting file is read-only, but the directories are executable: # tree -p /tmp /tmp └── [drwxr-x---] recurse └── [drwxr-x---] dir └── [drwxr-x---] dir └── [-rw-r-----] file You can also declare an explicit resource whose mode will be merged with the generated resource: class recurse { file { '/tmp/recurse': ensure => directory, mode => '640', recurse => true, source => 'puppet:///modules/recurse', } file { '/tmp/recurse/dir/dir': ensure => directory, mode => '777', } } Will set the permission of the recursively generated directory to 777: # puppet agent -t Info: Using configured environment 'production' Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Retrieving locales Info: Loading facts Info: Caching catalog for localhost Info: Applying configuration version '1535562162' Notice: /Stage[main]/Recurse/File[/tmp/recurse/dir/dir]/mode: mode changed '0750' to '0777' # tree -p /tmp /tmp └── [drwxr-x---] recurse └── [drwxr-x---] dir └── [drwxrwxrwx] dir └── [-rw-r-----] file Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.