On Sep 18, 2009, at 18:30 EDT, Disconnect wrote:
>
> (Wow, hi Luke! LTNT!)
Yes, it has!
>
> The standard way to do that is:
> source =>
> ["puppet:///foo/file-$hostname","puppet:///foo/file-$lsbdistcodename
> ","puppet:///foo/file"]
> - check for modules/foo/file-www4, then file-jaunty, then file
>
As I understood source arrays, would only grab the first one to
succeed, Type Reference says "If you specify multiple file sources for
a file, then the first source that exists will be used.". Is that
page out of date?
Luke
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Luke Schierer <luke.schie...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>> I am looking at migrating a set of servers from cfengine management
>> to
>> puppet management. For the most part, the move has been relatively
>> straight
>> forward, and I am pleased with the way that puppet's modules have
>> made some
>> of the things I did in cfengine2 much cleaner. There is one thing
>> though
>> that was relatively easy in cfengine that I am not seeing a good
>> way to
>> achieve with puppet.
>>
>> In cfengine I defined a variable serverlist that was essentially an
>> array of
>> hostnames. I then had the following copy block
>>
>> copy:
>> somehost::
>> /path/to/file/that/updates/nightly
>> server=${serverlist}
>> dest=/var/www/repository/${this}
>> mode=644 owner=apache group=wheel
>>
>> which caused the one host in the class somehost to copy the file
>> from each
>> server in the array serverlist to the repository.
>>
>> The closest I see in puppet would be to list each server source as a
>> different file entry in a class.
>>
>> Something like (psuedo code)
>>
>> class pullfile {
>> File { ensure => file, owner => apache, group => wheel, mode =>
>> 644, }
>> file {
>> host1: source => "puppet://host1/path/to/file" path =>
>> "/var/www/repository/host1";
>> host2: source => "puppet://host2/path/to/file" path =>
>> "/var/www/repository/host2";
>> }
>> }
>>
>> and have puppetmaster on each host.
>>
>> Is there a better way?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Luke
>
> >
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