On 25.06.2010 12:00, Jean-Baptiste Barth wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to be able to deploy a skeleton directory through puppet,
i.e. puppet deploys it only if it does not exist.
I tried this :
file {"/path/to/this/directory":
source => "puppet:///files/path/to/the/skeleton",
ensure => directory,
recurse => true,
owner => auser,
group => agroup
}
But I have 2 problems for the moment :
- if I don't set owner/group, it takes uid/gid on the puppetmaster,
which does not exist on the node ; if I do set these options, the
directory is scanned each time and all files are chown'ed to this
user/group, which is absolutely not desired behaviour in my case
(puppet should not change ownership for files it doesn't manage in my
case...)
Change the ownership of the files on the server (but this implies that
the users exists on the server too). Second what puppet version? There
were some bugs in older versions that made puppet hash all the files in
a folder if the folder was maintained by puppet, maybe that's the
problem in your case. Also try changing the hash property of file. If
you want that folder under a certain user you should allow puppet to
ensure that.
- I'd like puppet to let user change some files in the skeleton as
they want, i.e. skip this directory if it just exists
This is not possible, and would break the way puppet works if it were to
be implemented. Usually local changes can be integrated through the use
of the concat module (see puppet forge). But I don't know your real
usage of the files so it may be different. If you post what you need to
do maybe someone would give you a better idea of achieving just that.
You may try to create a file/fact for puppet to indicate that it
shouldn't touch that folder on that computer. Other than that no ideas,
but again post a more concrete usage scenario. Also maybe puppet isn't
the right tool for you since it works by ensuring some specific
settings, not allowing local changes. Maybe you need to generalize you
manifests instead of allowing local changes.
Welcome to puppet ;) ,
Silviu
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