Issue #86 has been updated by Roy Nielsen.
<opinion>
Handling creating a directory tree should not be any different than "mkdir -p"
when creating a directory tree.
Handling complex permissions should be a separate transaction/resource.
A stipulation can be made that when a directory tree is made, the "tree" only
can have one set of permissions/owner/group - as specified in the resource.
This would start with the directory that is missing, down to the leaf. -
ie - if /opt/local was there, and the resource called for creation of
/opt/local/lib/mylib/mysubdir the permissions/owner/group will start with the
newly created directories, starting with "lib", and including "mylib" &
"mysubdir".
Absent could just be a dangerous "rm -rf" at the leaf level specified. ie -
using the above example if one wants to get rid of mylib/mysubdir, one would say
path => "/opt/local/lib/mylib",
ensure => absent,
recurse => true,
As said above, any complex permissions/owner/group should be handled separately.
If people want the file resource to chown, chmod or chgrp with a "-R/r", that
could also be done, but as a separate bug/feature. (I would say something
similar to absent... start at the point specified in "path" or "name")
</opinion>
exec's ok... but from the http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/types/exec.html
page:
There is a strong tendency to use exec to do whatever work Puppet can’t
already do; while
this is obviously acceptable (and unavoidable) in the short term, it is highly
recommended to
migrate work from exec to native Puppet types as quickly as possible. If you
find that you are
doing a lot of work with exec, please at least notify us at Reductive Labs what
you are doing,
and hopefully we can work with you to get a native resource type for the work
you are doing.
Sounds like this is a feature that a lot of people want.
Just need to agree on what the feature does :)
Regards,
-Roy
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Feature #86: Directory creation fails if parent directory does not exist
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/86
Author: Redmine Admin
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assigned to:
Category: file
Target version: unplanned
Patch: None
Affected version: 0.24.7
Keywords: feature
Branch:
I tried
file {"/usr/local/share/puppet/sopext/facter" :
ensure => directory,
recurse => true
}
but get erros that the parent diretories are not available.
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