Since we're winding down :)
As nobody seems to love generated resources as passionately as I do
(it's OK, we still have each other), I would still ask for a compromise:
Autorequire does make sense, but can we tone it down?
As I understand it, the following resource
user { 'foo': home => '/var/lib/vendor/toolset/vendor-tool' }
will autorequire either
File['/var/lib/vendor/toolset']
File['/var/lib/vendor']
File['/var/lib']
or
File['/var']
which is a bit much for my taste. Autorequiring the immediate parent
only would make more sense to me.
Thanks,
Felix
On 03/03/2015 10:38 PM, Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> Indeed, I too apologize for the complete tangent!
>
> And, as would be expected, I'm for the autorequires since it does what I
> would expect it to do.
>
> Which, again, is counter to what John wants ;-). But, that's my answer
> to the original question.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trevor
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 3:37 PM, John Bollinger
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 5:41:19 PM UTC-6, Raphaël Pinson
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> As per Kylo's comment in PR for PUP-4036
>
> <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/3645#issuecomment-76032829>,
> I'd like to discuss the possibility and implications of
> autorequiring parent directories of the home directory for user
> resources.
>
> As stated in the PR, the idea came from stumbling upon a code
> like this one:
>
> file { '/srv/home': ensure => directory }
> file { '/home': ensure => link, target => '/srv/home' } -> User <| |>
>
>
> where it made a lot of sense that all users should just
> autorequire the nearest parent directory to their home directory.
>
> What are your thoughts on this feature?
>
>
>
> My sincere apologies for my part in what I now recognize as taking
> this thread off on a tangent. The lively discussion we had,
> however, did allow me to frame my general position on
> autorequirements, which is that they should be implemented only when
> they are directly indicated by the nature of the resource. If User
> resources /can/ be applied without first applying the File resources
> representing their home directories, then there should be no
> autorequirement.
>
>
> John
>
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