On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Rich Rauenzahn <rraue...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Nan Liu <n...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Rich Rauenzahn <rraue...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I was surprised to find that
>>>
>>> file { $foo:
>>> ensure => symlink,
>>> target => '/tmp/foo',
>>> }
>>>
>>> doesn't replace $foo if $foo is an empty directory.
>>>
>>> Is there a particular combination of options to the file resource that
>>> would replace the directory with the symlink if empty, but wouldn't
>>> filebucket the contents and the directory if it wasn't empty?
>>
>> See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#file
>> force => true
>
> That is what I'm doing. But force also empties the directory if it
> has contents. I don't want that.
Sorry missed the details, you can impose this behavior using an exec
and make the file resource depend on the exec. The exec will fail for
a non empty directory:
exec {
"remove_empty_dir":
command => "rmdir /tmp/foo",
path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
onlyif => "[ -d /tmp/foo ]",
}
Thanks,
Nan
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