http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/9277
On Aug 30, 7:48 pm, Daniel Pittman <dan...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> Oh, dear. Yes, John has it. :/
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> This is definitely a bug, and something we should fix. Can you file a
> ticket with the details, so that we don't lose track of this?
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> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 06:26, jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org> wrote:
> > You put your finger on it when you wrote "It will purge files managed
> > by other puppet resources in the same directory," but Daniel missed
> > your meaning, as did I on my first reading.
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> > You have tripped over a subtlety in the meaning of File's 'purge'
> > parameter: it removes files that are not managed *via File
> > resources*. It is not aware of files that are managed via other
> > resources. You might consider filing a ticket about this, but do
> > check first whether there's an existing one (i.e. I didn't).
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> > On the other hand, one reason you've run into trouble is that you're
> > mixing levels of resource abstraction and effectively managing the
> > same physical resources through two independent paths. To ensure that
> > only the repos managed via Puppet are in fact present at all, you
> > should be using the Resources metaresource:
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> > resources { 'yumrepo': purge => true }
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> > That says more directly what you seem really to want to say, without
> > assuming any particular back-end storage for repository declarations.
> > Moreover, it should do the right thing if you happen to end up with
> > managed and unmanaged repositories declared in the same file. (Note:
> > do not set the 'purge' parameter for File['/etc/yum.repos.d'], or set
> > it to 'false'.)
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> > John
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