On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Russell Howe <[email protected]> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Garstang
> > Sent: 03 June 2011 16:21
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Resources existing in
> > different operating systems.
>
> > All I was asking for was a way to conditional manage a
> > resource based on the operating system. Something like:
> >
> > file {
> >
> > $operatingsystem ? {
> >   'centos' => {
> >     "/etc/somefile":
> >         source => ....
> >   },
> >   'default' => {}
> > }
> >
> > Haven't tried it, but I don't think that's allowed.
> >
> > Doug.
>
> How about
>
> case $operatingsystem {
>        'centos': { $filesource = "/bar" }
>        default: { $filesource = "/foo" }
> }
>
> file { "name":
>        source => $filesource,
>        # ...
> }
>
>
What if the file doesn't exist at all on the other distro? I know for
example that centos creates a symlink from /boot/grub/grub.conf to
/etc/grub.conf. What if I only wanted to manage this file for CentOS, and
for other distro's, do nothing ?

Doug.

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