On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Gary Larizza <ccsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Nigel Kersten <nig...@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Gary Larizza <ccsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Nigel,
>> > We're trained to check /var/db for pkgdmg trigger files anyways - I've
>> > got
>> > no problem with it.  I'll need to make sure my external nodes script can
>> > find the $vardir/yaml/facts store, but other than that I don't have a
>> > problem with its change.  I suspect many may not notice - at least
>> > initially
>> > :)
>>
>> So this kind of raises another question then...
>>
>> Should we move the pkgdmg location?
>>
>>
>
> If we do - would there be a mechanism to automatically migrate those .puppet
> files to the new directory (in the update package).  I know it's easily
> scripted, but think about upgrading and then pkgdmg looking to the new
> location, not finding the files, and pulling down all those packages again.
>  That's my only concern (off the top of my head).  Short of that - I let
> pkgdmg handle those files, so I don't really care where they're located (so
> long as I can find them).


Yeah that's horrendous.

I wouldn't even think about doing it unless the preflight script moved
them all from the current location to the new one.



>
>
>>
>> > -Gary
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Roy Nielsen <r...@lanl.gov> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hello Nigel,
>> >>
>> >> /var/db/puppet sounds good for the default location..
>> >>
>> >> a little background: We have a central services team, and many field
>> >> teams
>> >> that directly support our customers.
>> >>
>> >> We've been looking into separating the $vardir based on team (central
>> >> or
>> >> field).  We're still in the "thinking about it" stage, so we haven't
>> >> fully
>> >> implemented it yet.  We have currently defined our central services
>> >> $vardir
>> >> as /var/lanl/puppet.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> -Roy
>> >>
>> >> On 6/9/10 12:49 PM, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> 0.25.5 changed the default vardir from /var/puppet to /var/lib/puppet
>> >>> and it's caused the odd issue we have to fix in the Mac pkg
>> >>> preflights.
>> >>>
>> >>> After re-reading 'man hier' I'm tempted to change the default on OS X
>> >>> to:
>> >>>
>> >>> /var/db/puppet
>> >>>
>> >>> instead.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>      /var/         multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool
>> >>> files
>> >>>                    ...
>> >>>                    db/        misc. automatically generated
>> >>> system-specific database files
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Thoughts?
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> nigel
>> >>>
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