Issue #5786 has been updated by Daniel Pittman. Status changed from Accepted to Needs Decision Assignee set to Nigel Kersten
Nigel, I don't think the specification is fully fleshed out yet. Concretely, I would still have a question before I implemented this: What is the behaviour over time, or with regards "keep the directory in sync with the tar.gz"? * if the tar file changed, download the new version, and unpack? * if the tar file is missing, download it, then sync the content with the directory? That is, in the later case, if I delete a file in the unpacked location should Puppet notice? Is it walking the content and doing a comparison to what is on disk, or is this just a wrapper around a file and refreshonly exec pair of resources? Should it enforce the removal of files that are not mentioned, or should we expose a custom option for this provider only about that? Should it just delete the target directory on `ensure => absent`, or should it leave that in place? Should it just remove files found in the tarball? Should this be a "tar" archive provider (optionally, with compression? What about if the decompression tool is missing?), or should it be an "archive" provider that also supports zip, lzma/7z, and other formats beyond just tar/gz or tar/bz2? ---------------------------------------- Feature #5786: Develop "archive" (bz2/gz) package provider. https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5786 Author: Michael Knox Status: Needs Decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Nigel Kersten Category: fileserving Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: Many of my manifests for applications need to cover the following process: 1. Download <application>.tar.gz to host 1. Expand <application>.tar.gz 1. Whatever install process is required As an example (assuming Feature Request#5783): file {"/srv/<application>": source => "<puppet|http>://<path>/<application>.tar.gz", expand => true, recurse => true, ensure => directory, } This would create a directory, and populate it with the contents of <application>.tar.gz It would also keep the contents in sync with <application>.tar.gz. Expand is a new option for file, but perhaps this could be inferred (and the option not needed) as ensure => directory and source is a file. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
