On 5 April 2013 03:23, Mike Power <[email protected]> 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.
>
> People have been requesting this feature for over 7 years (
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/86). It won't be accepted as there is
not enough consensus as how to implement it. Read the very long arguments
in the ticket notes for the intricacies

John

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