Hi Dominic, Yeah, multiple augeas resources is the problem.
The comment is a reasonable idea but I think it'll be more work than just falling back to concat. Thanks, Trevor On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Dominic Cleal <dcl...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 25/07/12 16:01, Trevor Vaughan wrote: >> I've been searching around but haven't found a way to do something >> like a purge with augeas. >> >> If you have a file such as >> >> [iniheader] >> entry1 (managed by puppet) >> entry2 (not managed by puppet) >> >> And you want to add 'entry3' as well as removing anything not managed >> by puppet in that subsection then you currently do not have this >> capability. > > In your Augeas resource, you could `rm` all other settings before > setting your own within a single resource. If this produces no actual > change in the written config file then the resource won't "change" either. > > rm /files/etc/foo.ini/iniheader/* > set /files/etc/foo.ini/iniheader/entry1 foo > set /files/etc/foo.ini/iniheader/entry2 bar > > If you're managing the same section across multiple Augeas resources > (e.g. more of a use case for Puppet's purge) then I don't think there's > a good solution. Perhaps you could mark your Puppet-managed resources > with a comment (a #comment subnode usually) and then delete anything > that doesn't match it. > > -- > Dominic Cleal > Red Hat Consulting > m: +44 (0)7817 878113 > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 tvaug...@onyxpoint.com -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
