On Aug 19, 2010, at 2:38 AM, Craig Dunn wrote:
>
> By any chance, does the "source" parameter supports HTTP URLs, if not
> then how can i do that in Puppet ?
>
>
> Source currently only supports the "file" and "puppet" URI types, you could
> accomplish a few ways, one is with a simple exec....
>
> exec { "wget http://myurl.com/file.txt -o /path/to/file.txt":
> creates => "/path/to/file.txt",
> }
>
> Having "creates" will ensure that it doesn't run if the file already exists.
>
> Craig
Just to clarify, if the remote file is changed, the client will not know to
redownload the remote file.
Zsync might do what you want if you want the client's file to change if the
remote file changes.
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