On 2/20/2009 4:52 PM, Brad Dixon wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I'd like to ensure that I've set-up various gconf settings for users.
> I cobbled together this little sad definition:
>
> define gconf($type, $value, $user) {
> exec{"set $name to $value":
> command => "/bin/su $user -c '/usr/bin/gconftool-2
> --config-source xml:readwrite:/home/$user/.gconf --type=$type --set
> $name \"$value\"'",
> }
> }
>
> used like this:
>
> gconf{"/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/font":
> type => "string",
> value => "Monospace 16",
> user => "rbdixon",
> }
>
> It all seems a little verbose. Any suggestions on how to improve this?
I can see setting a default type of "string", perhaps:
define gconf($type="string", $value, $user) {
...
but other than that, I don't know how much less verbose you could make
it and still have it be reasonably complete. However, you could (and
probably should) put all the common gconf defines into classes that you
can apply as a group:
class site_gnome_terminal_settings {
gconf("/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles/Default/font":
value => "Monospace 16",
user => "rbdixon",
}
....
}
Not that it helps with verbosity, but you'll want to include an 'unless'
parameter in the exec to make it idempotent. Otherwise, it'll run every
time puppet does. If gconftool also lets you query values, then you can
probably grep the user, name, and value strings from its output and do
it pretty cleanly.
--
Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research,
931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University
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