On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Brice Figureau
<brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like I missed your original e-mail to puppet-dev.
>
> On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 11:20 -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote:
>> [cross-posting as I'd like to know whether my intuition about this
>> being the most common case is correct]
>>
>>
>> class foo {
>>
>> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
>> source => "puppet:///modules/foo/foo.conf",
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> For me, every single one of my source specifications refers to a file
>> inside the current module. My intuition is that this is the most
>> common case outside my own deployment, so why don't we optimize for
>> it?
>>
>> class foo {
>>
>> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
>> source => "foo.conf",
>> }
>>
>> }
>>
>> eg the proposal is that if you don't specify the protocol, server
>> address, modules prefix, module name, it is assumed you are referring
>> to a file path relative to the 'files' subdirectory of the current
>> module.
>>
>> If you wish to fully specify the source URI, you're free to do so.
>
> My issue with your proposal is that at first glance it will look like a
> local copy (which should require an absolute path) and not a remote
> copy. This certainly violate the least surprise paradigm for new users.
But you're optimizing for an uncommon case...
Why doesn't this concern matter for everything else that happens
server-side? template/file functions, imports, etc.
The client never sees the manifest, only the catalog. I am talking
about a local copy. Local to the server. :)
I'm talking about throwing out the current assumptions because I don't
think they're aimed at the most common cases for Puppet, which are
client/server setups where your files primarily come from the modules
they are requested in.
> What about a new URI scheme (ie module) which would do the same:
>
> class foo {
> file { "/etc/foo.conf":
> source => "module://foo.conf",
> }
> }
It's ugly and unnecessarily verbose in my opinion. How many different
protocols are we really going to add to Puppet?
>
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