You can use concat fragments to specify the order of stanzas or lines.
Forgive the pseudo code below but you should be able to get the idea
concat::fragment { original_file:
order => 10,
}
concat::fragment { other_stuff:
order => 50,
}
concat::fragment { last_line:
order => 99,
}
This will allow you to specify a file where other admins can edit
"original_file" and you can concat your changes in whatever order you want.
On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 5:37:26 PM UTC-6, Stack Kororā wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I am currently managing a configuration file for an application with
> puppet+file_line and so far everything is going well. I have about 30 rules
> that I need to ensure are in the configuration file. The tricky part is
> that the rest of the file I don't care about but some admin somewhere
> *does*. I, as the puppet module dev/admin, may not care about "$someline"
> but AdminA may need "$someline" to exist where AdminB may need "$someline"
> to _not_ exist and AdminC may need "$someline" to exist with a different
> value associated with it (!). Due to this complexity I have given up trying
> the template route (maybe I am doing it wrong...but it was a pain trying to
> deal with all the different parameters...I didn't get far before it was
> over my head in complexity).
>
> In short, I am managing 30 lines of a config file with puppet in a config
> file that may be anywhere between 30-100 lines long depending on the
> system, admin, and use.
>
> So what is the problem? Well up till this last rule, I haven't cared what
> order these rules exist in the config file. It generally doesn't make a
> difference. But not the latest addition to these rules that I am supposed
> to ensure exists. This new rule is kind of like an iptables "-A INPUT -j
> DROP" rule for this application. If it is anywhere *but* the last line of
> the file, then all the rest of the config lines are ignored. Thankfully the
> program at least complains about this so we can fix it manually, but it
> would be awesome if puppet would ensure that this line was /always/ the
> last line of the file.
>
> I tinkered with a few things (like anchors and stages) but the problem is
> that if the line already exists and isn't at the end, nothing moves it to
> the end.
>
> Does anyone have any clever ideas on how to ensure that a line exists as
> the very last item of a file? Or maybe there is a suggestion on a better
> method of managing this config file?
>
> Thanks!
> ~Stack~
>
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