On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Peter Meier <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> I assumed that when doing a directory and specifying recursive that it
>>> would create a directory along with any paths it needed, the way mkdir -p
>>> does. However, that does not appear to be the case. Does anyone know of a
>>> bug report or enhancement request for that? If not, I'd be happy to file
>>> one and/or submit a patch for it.
>>
>> If what you are wanting is parent directories, that has been raised
>> before and, IIRC, the consensus was that that would cause more
>> problems than it would solve. The core issue is that by implicitly
>> managing the directory resource you could wind up with it being
>> managed more than once and get conflicting settings for owner, rights,
>> etc.
>>
>> The conclusion the last time this came up is that you should
>> explicitly manage (and require) the parent directories.
>>
>> The recursion parameter is for going down into child directories, and
>> that should work. If I;m misunderstanding your request and it doesn't
>> work for you, there may be a bug somewhere where, and that of course
>> should be fixed.
>
> You're talking about bug #86 [1], a very old bug report. and it has a
> very long discussion of different solutions and the different problems
> that these solutions bring with them.
>
> So as Markus said the current status (to not automagically manage parent
> directories) is the best solution in terms of that it is the one with
> the fewest problems.
I was thinking a function could work for the people who really want
this feature and that way we're not creating issues with the way the
file type actually works.
$mypath = "/usr/local/foo/bin"
file { path_components($mypath):
ensure => directiory,
}
and path_components just returns an array:
['/usr', '/usr/local', '/usr/local/foo', '/usr/local/bin']
>
> pete
>
> [1] http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/86
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