Issue #11055 has been reported by Garrett Honeycutt.
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Feature #11055: directory needed for exec's to hold output for creates attribute
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11055
Author: Garrett Honeycutt
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The example to demonstrate the creates attribute from our documentation is as
follows as places the output in an arbitrary location.
<pre>
exec { "tar -xf /Volumes/nfs02/important.tar":
cwd => "/var/tmp",
creates => "/var/tmp/myfile",
path => ["/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin"]
}
</pre>
In order to keep state with exec's, I have been creating a directory under
puppet's directory tree with a puppet class and including that in every module
that uses exec and needs to keep state with the creates attribute. This does
not scale across puppet distributions and plunges the modules into dependency
hell.
The fix would be to have something similar to $module_path, so that one could
specify the directory in puppet.conf and access it in their manifests via a
variable. This solves the dependency issue with modules and allows packagers to
place the directory where it makes sense for their distribution.
Then the above code might look like
<pre>
exec { "tar -xf /Volumes/nfs02/important.tar":
cwd => "/var/tmp",
creates => "$exec_state_path/myfile",
path => ["/usr/bin", "/usr/sbin"]
}
</pre>
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