I have the same issue, I basically create an array, that way it cuts it
down to one FILE, and not the same thing over and over again.
file { [/blah, /blah/blah, /blah/blah/blah, /blah/blah/blah/blah,
/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah]:
ensure = directory,
owner = blah,
group = blah,
mode = 0700,
}
On Monday, April 8, 2013 1:27:11 PM UTC-7, Luca Gioppo wrote:
Can you post a complete example please?
Thanks
Luca
2013/4/4 Mike Power dodt...@gmail.com javascript:
Actually I found if I created a resource between path and file called
element, I could give it a unique name. Then inside the body I could check
to see if the File is declared, if not I could declare it.
On Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:23:54 AM UTC-7, Mike Power wrote:
Puppet right now requires every element of a path to have an individual
file definition. This makes it had to take an arbitrary path as a
parameter. You are forced to require your client to make the entire path
structure for you or instead you use an exec resource and call mkdir -p.
Using an exec resource does not generate an File resources so autorequire
does not work.
I didn't like this, I wanted to be able to once specify a path and have
puppet do that autorequire as needed.
Something like:
path {/blah/blah/blah/and/blah:
}
In order to make this happen I would have to manually define each file:
file {/blah/:
ensure = directory,
}
file {/blah/blah/:
ensure = directory,
}
file {/blah/blah/blah/:
ensure = directory,
}
file {/blah/blah/blah/and/:
ensure = directory,
}
file {/blah/blah/blah/and/blah/:
ensure = directory,
}
Of course there is a short hand for this:
file {[/blah/, /blah/blah/, /blah/blah/blah/,
/blah/blah/blah/and/,/blah/**blah/blah/and/blah/]:
ensure = directory,
}
Then it occurred to me I could parse the path and produce the array of
elements needed. Something like:
$path = /blah/blah/blah/and/blah
$file_list = split($path, $file_separator)
$paths = inline_template('% parent = nil %%=@file_list.collect{
|file| parent.nil? ? parent = #{@file_separator}:parent =
#{parent}#{file}#{@file_**separator}}.join(@path_**separator) %')
$path_list = split($paths, $path_separator)
file{$path_list:
ensure = directory,
}
This works great once. Then you get errors like:
Error: Duplicate declaration: File[/]
If there anyway to trim down the produced array by removing the
resources that already exist?
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