On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Felix Frank <
[email protected]> wrote:
> We're getting side-tracked ;) but here's why those should really be the
> same to Puppet: What the catalog refers to as a 'file' is actually a
> file system entry.
>
True, but that is not how you think about them when you are creating them.
You don't think I need to create a file system entry that is a directory.
You think I need to create a directory.
> If you allow the resources file { "/tmp": } and directory { "/tmp": } to
> coexists, you are bound to face trouble. Since both represent the same
> file system entry, puppet should handle them with exactly one resource.
> It's a sane design in the given domain.
>
That is a problem puppet could alert on, or puppet could just let the
managed OS tell whether that state is permissible.
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