On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Michael Knox wrote: > It would be neat if puppet could use tar.gz's as a source, instead of just > bare directory trees. So I've lodged a feature request: > https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5786 > > Many of my manifests for applications need to cover the following process: 1. > Download .tar.gz to host > 2. Expand .tar.gz > 3. Whatever install process is required > > As an example (assuming Feature Request#5783): > file {“/srv/<application>”: > source => “<puppet|http>:///<path>/<application>.tar.gz”, > expand => true, > recurse => true, > ensure => directory, > } > > This would create a directory, and populate it with the contents of .tar.gz > It would also keep the contents in sync with .tar.gz. > > Expand is a new option for file, but perhaps this could be inferred (and the > option not needed) as ensure => directory and source is a file.
I'm curious what you're thinking of. Would this be a File? (The directory contents are checked each time.) or would this be a Package (assume that the contents are right if the file on the server hasn't changed) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
