Luke Kanies wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Joel Nimety wrote:
>
>
>
> The problem with this is that by the time the 'file' resource has
> gotten the 'notify' message, the file's already been changed so it's
> too late to back it up.
>
> You'd either need your type to somehow track the files it's going to
> change and back them up (which is what the ParsedFile types do), or
> you'd need Puppet, as a whole, to keep track of files that *might*
> change, back them up preemptively, and then remove any backups that
> aren't needed. Or something like that.
>
> Either way, this isn't easy.
How about a pre-notify meta parameter? Leave it to the external tool
(augeas, exec, whatever) to decide if a file is about to be changed and
notify the File resource beforehand. The File type would backup the
file, no questions asked if notified to do so.
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