----- "Daniel Pittman" <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote:
> "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:
some have a purge property yeah
and you can do somting like:
resource{"package": purge => true, noop => true}
this will do what you wanted, though i am not 100% if that syntax is correct,
but its done via that type. Will only work for types that do support purging,
not many seem to do it. Like the ssh keys one would be *awesome* if they did.
>
> > ---
> > 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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