On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Gabriel Filion <lelu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 11-04-20 01:02 PM, Martin Alfke wrote:
>> On Apr 20, 2011, at 6:07 PM, Sans wrote:
>>> Say for example, this is the package, already installed on the
>>> system:
>>>
>>> # rpm -qa | grep lfc-libs
>>> lfc-libs-1.8.0-1sec.sl5
>>> lfc-libs-1.8.0-1sec.sl5
>>>
>>> and I want a symbolic: "liblfc.so -> libdpm.so.1.8.0" in "/opt/lfc/
>>> lib", for example. Is it possible? Cheers!!
>>
>> Setting symlinks is standard job for file resource type:
>>
>> file { '<source>':
>> ensure => '<destination>'
>> }
>>
>> Example.:
>>
>> file {'/etc/inetd.conf':
>> ensure => 'etc/inet/inetd.conf'
>> }
>>
>> This creates a symlink /etc/inetd.conf pointing to /etc/inet/inetd.conf
>
> the above will work fine, but using the "ensure" parameter to specify
> the target path was deemed misleading and so an alternative was added.
>
> I suggest checking out this page for more info on the "file" resource type:
>
> http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#file
>
> However, from what I can see, the documentation about its "ensure"
> parameter could use a little fine-tuning. Even though the first
> parameter doesn't mention "link" as a valid value for "ensure", there is
> an example of the alternative I'm describing in the first code box.
>
> Here's an example using the alternative method, which in my opinion
> makes things clearer:
>
> # this should theroetically make a symlink relative to the current
> # directory. You can also use absolute paths for the target.
> file { '/opt/lfc/lib/liblfc.so':
> ensure => link,
> target => 'libdpm.so.1.8.0',
> }
Gah. You just reminded me of a deprecation we planned to do for
Statler but didn't get done.
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4938
I always push the alternative syntax you've hinted at:
file { "/tmp/foo":
ensure => symlink,
target => "/tmp/bar",
}
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