Issue #1818 has been updated by R.I. Pienaar aka Volcane.

Nicolas Szalay wrote:
> I'd like to see this functionnality too. I know that relying on FS properties 
> of file being here/not here is not optimal but managing huge templates is not 
> really a good thing. Is there a way to create a "lazy_template" function 
> running even if not all erb files are present ?

Your only option till someone recognize that a feature requested at least once 
a week on IRC has merit is to use the function I wrote here: 
http://pastie.org/666728

I'm frankly still shocked at this, every single week at least 1 person on IRC 
can't believe the different behaviour between file's source and template and 
still it's not considered to have merit, in all the years I've used Puppet I 
think I can remember only hearing of 2 or 3 instances where template 
concatenation had any value.

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Feature #1818: Allow multiple sources for a template and only use the first 
template if it exists
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1818

Author: Henrik Pedersen
Status: Rejected
Priority: Normal
Assigned to: 
Category: 
Target version: 
Affected version: 0.24.6
Keywords: 
Branch: 


Hi

It would be useful to be able to specify multiple sources for a template, and 
only use the first template if it exists.

Just like the syntax for 'source' where you can specify more sources for a file 
with the syntax :
<pre>
file { "/my/file":
   source => ["puppet://server/$hostname/file", ""puppet://server/defaultfile"]
}
</pre>


Using a template it should be possible to use the same syntax

<pre>
file { "/my/file":
   source => 'content => [template("hosts/$hostname/hosts.erb"), 
template("hosts/hosts.erb")]
}
</pre>

Currently puppet fails with an error of : err: Could not retrieve catalog: 
Could not find template /etc/puppet/templates/hosts/<hostname>/hosts.erb at 
/etc/puppet/manifests/classes/hosts.pp:9 on node <full hostname> since it only 
tries to load the first template and fails when that is missing.

Best regards
Henrik Pedersen
Denmark



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