[Puppet Users] File contents into a variable (once it exists)

Paul, Thanks for the tip regarding approaching the problem from a more puppet-like declarative stance. I'm not really sure that it's possible here, besides making a custom resource type as you mention. The main hurdle that I see with any solution is that fundamentally generate() / file() d

[Puppet Users] File contents into a variable (once it exists)

zed_keys (which serves no purpose, but it's the same format and that file will always exist) and the second execution does the right thing. But it's pretty gross, and it means users will take a longer time than necessary to fully propagate. Is there some method that I'm overlo