On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net>wrote:
> "R.I.Pienaar" <r...@devco.net> writes:
> > ----- "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Mathijs <bluescreen...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >
> Well, setting a default of 'ensure => absent' tells the providers that when
> something isn't listed in the manifest it should go away — which was my
> reading of the request.
>
that only works for defined packages! e.g. if you do
package{"xyz":}
then it will remove it by default, it will not remove the other packages.
> Some providers supports purging and you can purge unmanaged resources
> using
> > the resource type, but you really want to be careful with that.
>
> Well, yes. You seem to be saying more or less the same thing I am, but
> disagreeing with me, and I don't quite understand where.
>
The resource purge removes things which are not defined in puppet, e.g.
remove all hosts from /etc/hosts unless they are defined in puppet.
Ohad
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