Re: [Puppet-dev] Autorequiring parent directories to the home directory in user resources

2015-02-27 Thread Trevor Vaughan
Ok, you certainly have a working counter example, but I feel that it *should* actually fail and that this is a bug. The expected state of the system is: 1) Make a FIFO file at /other/path 2) Set permissions on /other/path 3) Link /path/link to /other/path I would like to propose that symlinks sh

[Puppet-dev] Puppet Dev Status -- week ending Feb 28

2015-02-27 Thread Kylo Ginsberg
Priorities - Puppet Agent 1.0.0 - Puppet Server 2.0.0 - Puppet Server 1.1.0 - Puppet 4.0.0 / 3.8.0 - Hiera 2.0 Our main emphasis continues to be on the work needed to release puppet-agent 1.0.0 and puppet-server 2.0.0. Much of this is Jenkins-related (feel free

Re: [Puppet-dev] Autorequiring parent directories to the home directory in user resources

2015-02-27 Thread John Bollinger
On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 2:28:22 PM UTC-6, David Schmitt wrote: > > On 2015-02-26 20:31, John Bollinger wrote: > > > Symbolic links do _not_ have the same kind of relationship with their > > targets. A link can be managed entirely independently of its target, > > therefore Puppet s

Re: [Puppet-dev] Autorequiring parent directories to the home directory in user resources

2015-02-27 Thread Trevor Vaughan
I still can't come up with a scenario where this would ever be an issue. Auto-creating a resource (especially a directory) is a greater level of spooky action at a distance since it's actually *doing* something to your system and I'm very against that when possible. (It also bloats your catalog, b

Re: [Puppet-dev] Autorequiring parent directories to the home directory in user resources

2015-02-27 Thread Felix Frank
Hi, thanks for building this. I must admit, I find the prospect a little frightening. The logic that picks the autorequire target makes sense, but I see quite some potential for surprising the user with weird dependency cycles. What I'd like to see instead would be for the user type to actually