Actually I found if I created a resource between path and file called
element, I could give it a unique name. Then inside the body I could check
to see if the File is declared, if not I could declare it.
On Thursday, April 4, 2013 9:23:54 AM UTC-7, Mike Power wrote:
>
> Puppet right now requires every element of a path to have an individual
> file definition. This makes it had to take an arbitrary path as a
> parameter. You are forced to require your client to make the entire path
> structure for you or instead you use an exec resource and call mkdir -p.
> Using an exec resource does not generate an File resources so autorequire
> does not work.
>
> I didn't like this, I wanted to be able to once specify a path and have
> puppet do that autorequire as needed.
>
> Something like:
> path {"/blah/blah/blah/and/blah":
> }
>
>
> In order to make this happen I would have to manually define each file:
> file {"/blah/":
> ensure => directory,
> }
>
> file {"/blah/blah/":
> ensure => directory,
> }
>
> file {"/blah/blah/blah/":
> ensure => directory,
> }
>
> file {"/blah/blah/blah/and/":
> ensure => directory,
> }
>
> file {"/blah/blah/blah/and/blah/":
> ensure => directory,
> }
>
> Of course there is a short hand for this:
> file {["/blah/", "/blah/blah/", "/blah/blah/blah/",
> "/blah/blah/blah/and/","/blah/blah/blah/and/blah/"]:
> ensure => directory,
> }
>
> Then it occurred to me I could parse the path and produce the array of
> elements needed. Something like:
> $path = "/blah/blah/blah/and/blah"
> $file_list = split($path, $file_separator)
> $paths = inline_template('<% parent = nil %><%=@file_list.collect{
> |file| parent.nil? ? parent = "#{@file_separator}":parent =
> "#{parent}#{file}#{@file_separator}"}.join(@path_separator) %>')
> $path_list = split($paths, $path_separator)
> file{$path_list:
> ensure => directory,
> }
>
> This works great.... once. Then you get errors like:
> Error: Duplicate declaration: File[/]
>
> If there anyway to trim down the produced array by removing the resources
> that already exist?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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