A directory is a directory. That a directory has a parent directory in which
other files exist is pretty moot.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com>wrote:

> We don't put our manifests under /etc/puppet at all.   It's convenient for
> small installations but as we scaled up I found mixing configs (local,
> managed by Puppet)  and manifests (kept under version control) to be
> problematic.
> On Sep 1, 2011 11:58 AM, "Russell Van Tassell" <russel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm currently in the same position, and the solution I've proposed (and
> am
> > currently working on) involves using a central repository (likely git).
> The
> > puppet client (running on the master) simply checks the current master
> > branch on the remote repository -- if the revisions are not the same, it
> > just pulls a new copy.
> >
> > While I've not implemented this, yet ... I'm guessing it should work.
> Anyone
> > have any better ideas -- perhaps a check-in hook to trigger at export?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Russell
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Douglas Garstang
> > <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> I have a real-world, best practices, procedural question.
> >>
> >> How do you manage the he puppet master, under /etc/puppet, where
> multiple
> >> people may be editing files? The /etc/puppet directory is a working
> copy,
> >> and each user has read access to files created by other users. However,
> if
> >> one person adds a module directory to svn, the lock files that are
> created
> >> by svn are owned by that person, and the next person that comes along
> can't
> >> do svn updates etc. Similarly I can't write to files created by a
> different
> >> user.
> >>
> >> Yes, sure, the 'right way' to do this may be to have all the files owned
> by
> >> the puppet user, and users don't edit files directly in /etc/puppet, and
> a
> >> script is responsible for performing the svn update, but we're not there
> >> yet.
> >>
> >> Ideas?
> >>
> >> Doug.
> >>
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