"R.I.Pienaar" <r...@devco.net> writes:
> ----- "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
>
>> >>
>> >> # The puppet version of rm -rf /*
>> >> Package { ensure => absent, noop => true }
>> >> User { ensure => absent, noop => true }
>> >>
>> >> # These override the defaults
>> >> package { "foo": ensure => present }
>> >
>> > How does this meet his goals? He want to just remove things from the
>> manifest
>> > and they must go away from the machines.
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> No, either I am misunderstanding you or you dont understand how the defaults
> work.
It looks like a little of both: apparently some of the providers don't do
discovery and act on everything, only what is explicitly named:
> ---
> Package { ensure => absent }
> package{"zsh": ensure => present}
> package{"foo": }
> ---
>
> Are you saying the hypothetical manifest would delete all packages except
> zsh?
That was my understanding...
> What it would do is remove package foo, install zsh, and do nothing else.
...and as far as I knew at least some of the other providers do behave that
way. Sorry, though, it looks like mostly my screw-up.
Daniel
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