Excellent information there John. Thank you for taking time to explain so
clearly.
Dave
On Monday, November 26, 2012 2:38:39 PM UTC, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:41:48 AM UTC-6, KomodoDave wrote:
>>
>> Actually this is interesting: the 'path' parameter has a default value of
>> the title. So if you don't specify the path yet specify an array for the
>> title, I wonder what the internal logic is?
>>
>> Intriguing...
>>
>>
> You are missing an important subtlety: when you use an array as a resource
> title, you are declaring not just one resource but several separate
> resources -- one for each array element, with the corresponding element as
> its title. Each resource gets the same values for the assigned parameters,
> and default values for all others. Thus, this declaration
>
> file { [ '/tmp/one', '/tmp/two']:
> ensure => 'file',
> mode => 0644
> }
>
> is exactly equivalent to these two
>
> file { '/tmp/one':
> ensure => 'file',
> mode => 0644
> }
>
> file { '/tmp/two':
> ensure => 'file',
> mode => 0644
> }
>
> . The array-style declaration is strictly shorthand. The default 'path'
> parameter for File['/tmp/one'] is '/tmp/one', and the default 'path'
> parameter for File['/tmp/two'] is '/tmp/two', regardless of which form you
> use to declare them.
>
>
> John
>
>
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