That's a really good point and an unfortunate situation, kind of like the
group/user dependency chain for removals.
So, there goes that thread :-)
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Erik Dalén <erik.gustav.da...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 at 15:04 Felix Frank <felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On 03/06/2015 02:45 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
>> > file { '/export': ensure => 'directory' }
>> > file { '/export/home': ensure => 'directory' }
>> > user { 'foo': home => '/export/home/foo' } # This probably needs to come
>> > after /export/home, otherwise the user will get a nasty surprise when
>> > they first login
>> >
>> > Sure, I *can* create the user without having the directory in place. But
>> > what good does that do anyone?
>>
>> Ah, a misunderstanding. It had actually not occured to me that users
>> might manage the $HOME dir as a file resource as well, and that we
>> should autorequire that. I'm all caught up in autorequiring the parent.
>>
>> And yes, both these things do make sense. I see no issues with adding
>> the relationship to either homedir or parent. (It's parent+1 that makes
>> no sense, but we agree on that as well).
>>
>
> Won't the $HOME file resource autorequire the user resource already? At
> least if $HOME is owned by $USER, which it usually is. So then you would
> get a dependency loop.
>
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