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
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