Technically true, but administratively confusing IMHO.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Scott Smith <sc...@ohlol.net> wrote:

> 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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