On Sep 2, 2014 5:43 AM, "Balasubramaniam Natarajan" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a query regarding how recurse behaves when we call it with "ensure
=> file"[1] compared with "ensure => directory"[2] ?
>
> Would it make any sense to call recurse with "ensure => file" ?

No, recurse is only useful for copying directory to directory.

What are you going to accomplish? Copying a source directory of symlinks as
their targets? If so, there's a separate parameter for that.

Wil

> [1]
>   file {'/home/bala':
>     ensure=> file,
>     source => "puppet:///files/home/bala/",
>     sourceselect => "all",
>     recurse => true,
>   }
>
> [2]
>   file {'/home/bala':
>     ensure=> directory,
>     source => "puppet:///files/home/bala/",
>     sourceselect => "all",
>     recurse => true,
>   }
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Balasubramaniam Natarajan
> http://blog.etutorshop.com
>
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