On 3/9/09, Trevor Hemsley <trevor.hems...@codefarm.com> wrote:
>
> I always prefer the syntax
>
> file {"/var/puppet":
> ensure => symlink,
> target => "/var/lib/puppet"
> }
>
++
I find the other syntax to be really confusing as it's quite a
different value type for the ensure parameter compared to all the
other uses of the file type.
> as it seems to me to be more accurate in describing what I want it to
> do. It should achieve the same thing though.
>
> Steve Wray wrote:
>> Based on the documentation I had thought that this:
>>
>> file { "/var/puppet":
>> ensure => "/var/lib/puppet"
>> }
>>
>>
>> should create a symlink /var/puppet which points to the directory
>> /var/lib/puppet
>>
>> It doesn't seem to be working :-/
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>
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