That's definitely way better than what I was planning on doing, thanks
Peter!

2009/6/27 Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch>

>
> Hi
>
> > exec { "sources":
> >        command => "sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/ >
> > /tmp/githubadded",
> >        creates => "/tmp/githubadded"
> > }
> >
> > I hope that's the right way to do it...
>
>
> I would rather do:
>
> exec { "sources":
>        command => "sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com/";,
>        unless => 'gem source -l | grep -q gems.github.com',
> }
>
> which is more idempotent.
>
> /tmp is thought only for temporary files. on the different systems this
> file will be missing after a certain amount of time or after a reboot.
> hence puppet would rerun the exec again.
>
> cheers pete
>
> >
>


-- 
Regards,
Swati

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