On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:13 AM, David Schmitt <da...@dasz.at> wrote:
> On 22.03.2011 02:53, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>>
>> The file{} type can do all of the following:
>>
>> * manage single files
>> * manage directories
>> * manage symlinks
>> * manage recursive file copies
>>
>> The intersection of all these bits of functionality makes it difficult
>> to understand exactly what is going on when you're new to Puppet, and
>> even experienced users often don't know how combining symlinks/content
>> management is going to work.
>>
>> How would people feel about at least splitting out these into their own
>> types?
>>
>> * symlinks
>> * recursive file copies
>>
>> The intersection of files and directories isn't that big a deal, but
>> we could split out directories too if we wanted.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to split it into
> file/symlink/directory(/{char,block}device/...), and model/manage recursive
> copies as "content of a directory"?
Maybe?
I kind of like the idea of a Directory type being quite simple, and we
implement something like a Tree type that had all the recursion etc,
but it's going to take a little while to work out how this should be.
> Another question is how current "mixed-content" models like the "purge empty
> directory and manually add files" pattern used by the various conf.d include
> directories interacts with such a change. In the best case, this would
> reduce to something like
>
> directory { "/etc/apache2/conf.d":
> ensure => present,
> content => empty;
> }
>
> Another related type would by "tidy", which is "only" a complex kind of file
> purging, no?
>
>
>
> Best Regards, David
>
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