On Monday, 9 March 2015 14:54:14 UTC+1, Felix Frank wrote: > > On 03/09/2015 02:16 PM, Henrik Lindberg wrote: > >> It would be splendid if we could define modulepath paths with > >> $environment as variable part of path, like this: > >> modulepath = /path/to/$environment/modules > >> manifest = /path/to/$environment/manifest2/ > >> > >> Would there be any interest for this feature? > >> If this is implemented for modulepath setting, maybe it should be > >> appropriate to implement it for manifest setting too? > >> > > > > This scares me a bit. It looks like it has potential to open the can of > > worms known as dynamic environments we managed to put the lid on with > > directory environments. Will have to discuss if this can used to do > > harmful things. If allowed it could only be allowed inside an absolute > > path. > > Agreed, there might be security implications. >
Probably, I did not look into that. But since node-2-environment mapping is mostly done by masters now (is this recommended setup now?), I do not think it would be that severe. > I also fail to see the value in that. Do you mean to allow an > environment to extend itself to a whole different file system tree? Yes and no, see next message for additional explanation of my setup. > Wouldn't that just be horrible for organizing things? > It can. But so can PHP be abused for creating insecure aplications. And "rm -rf" wipes your system without warning too :) But, as I percieved the happening in the recent past, PuppetLabs had hard time steering users towards sane module / node definition organization, and can see a value of not destroying what has been achieved. b. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/9f46064e-41ca-44b1-bdd9-02b6cfb8c133%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
