On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Peter Meier wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> let's assume we have the following source dir:
>
> cd /tmp
> mkdir src src/a/b -p
> echo "blub1" > src/file1
> echo "blub2" > src/a/file2
> echo "blub3" > src/a/b/file3
> echo "blub4" > src/a/b/file4
>
> and we have the following manifest:
>
> file{'/tmp/target':
> source => '/tmp/src',
> recurse => true,
> purge => true,
> owner => root, group => 0, mode => 644;
> }
>
> file{'/tmp/target/a/b':
> mode => 0666;
> }
>
> So we'd like to recursively copy a directory to a target. However one
> subdirectory should have special permissions as we need to write
> into it.
>
> So what puppet does is that it manages manages the target and its
> subdirectories, copies file1 and file2. But it doesn't copy file3 and
> file4. If I leave first the second file definition out, then
> everything
> gets copied. Later I readd it, everything still seems to work fine,
> until I change for example file4. file4 then will never get updated.
> Or also if I manually add a file5 in /tmp/target/a/b this won't get
> purged by puppet as it should as it isn't in the source and not
> managed
> by puppet.
>
> Is this the expected behavior, is there a workaround or is it simply
> a bug?
I don't think I completely understood your examples, but it's expected
behaviour that Puppet will not manage through recursion any files
you're explicitly managing.
To Puppet, there are implicit and explicit resources; anything that
shows up directly in your catalog is an explicit resource, anything
managed through recursion is implicit. Implicit resources that
conflict with explicit resources always just get ignored. Crucially
for you, when doing recusion, explicit resources cause the recursion
to stop at the explicit point.
Imagine if you wanted to do recursive management on that second file
statement - what behaviour woould you expect to see, if the top-level
recursion still managed the other directory, especially if purging
were enabled? You'd have the two file statements fighting, it seems.
So yeah, this is expected behaviour, and I don't think it's a bug, but
maybe others disagree.
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