"R.I.Pienaar" <r...@devco.net> writes:
> ----- "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
>
>> Mathijs <bluescreen...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > For some definition-based and custom resources, I'm looking for a way to
>> > tell systems: "only these should be present, the rest should be purged".
>>
>> Please don't run this, but:
>>
>> # The puppet version of rm -rf /*
>> Package { ensure => absent, noop => true }
>> User { ensure => absent, noop => true }
>>
>> # These override the defaults
>> package { "foo": ensure => present }
>
> How does this meet his goals? He want to just remove things from the manifest
> and they must go away from the machines.
Well, setting a default of 'ensure => absent' tells the providers that when
something isn't listed in the manifest it should go away — which was my
reading of the request.
I suppose that Mathijs could be looking to have only things that were managed
by puppet go away when removed...
> Some providers supports purging and you can purge unmanaged resources using
> the resource type, but you really want to be careful with that.
Well, yes. You seem to be saying more or less the same thing I am, but
disagreeing with me, and I don't quite understand where.
Daniel
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