To explain the background behind my question
We have a number of situations where it would be great if I could have
puppet automatically maintain a symlink for a resource such as the Java JVM.
For example - we install the JDK in /usr/java so after the RPM install, the
path to the JVM is /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_16. In order to simplify application
configuration, I like to make JAVA_HOME something generic like
/usr/java/java. I do this by creating a symlink
ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_16/ /usr/java/java
I would like to have puppet maintain the symlink so that when YUM updates
the JVM, the symlink gets updated as well. I know I could do this in the RPM
or using exec but that sounds like too much work:)
Just for fun I tried to setup a file type in puppet to create the symlink
using a wildcard. I did not expect this to work given the need for shell
expansion.
file { "/usr/java/java":
ensure => "/usr/java/jdk1.*"
}
Is their another way to do this in the puppet framework? I can do this using
exec, but I wanted to work from within puppet first.
Thanks for any ideas
Ed
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