On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 03:20:20PM +1100, John Warburton wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have a bit of a strange one, and am not sure I'm doing this right. This is
> with 2.6.4 on Solaris 10
>
> We want to create a sym link from a source file that is created by a
> package. If the package isn't installed, puppet in noop is registering an
> error (big red in the dashboard) because it cannot stat the source file of
> the link.
>
> root@warbjohn# cat /tmp/symlink2.pp
> package {"somepackage":
> ensure => installed,
> }
> file {"/path/created/by/some/package/link":
> source => "/path/created/by/some/package/source",
> require => Package["somepackage"],
> }
>
Currently you're copying a file from source to link. If you want to
create a symlink do:
file { '/path/created/by/some/package/link':
target => "/path/created/by/some/package/source",
ensure => link,
require => Package["somepackage"],
}
-Stefan
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