Idk if i did understand correctly, but there is the replace parameter in
the file resource that may help here.
Regards
El 24/04/2014 15:33, "Paul Tötterman" <paul.totter...@gmail.com> escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I'm managing workstations using puppet, and I was wondering if there's a
> better way to do this:
>
> $dir = inline_template('<%=ENV["HOME"]%>')
>
> define customizable_file($source=undef,$template=undef,$replacemd5='') {
>> $tmplname = $template ? {
>> undef => "$name.common",
>> default => "$template",
>> }
>> file { "$tmplname":
>> source => $source,
>> }
>> exec { "cp $tmplname $name":
>> onlyif => "test ! -e $name -o \"$(md5sum $name|cut -d' ' -f1)\"
>> = \"$replacemd5\"",
>> path => ['/bin', '/usr/bin'],
>> require => File["$tmplname"],
>> }
>> }
>> customizable_file { "$dir/foo-$::hostname":
>> source => 'file:///etc/motd',
>> template => "$dir/foo-common",
>> replacemd5 => 'e43e23c6d9a376bedd1ae405be4fdf97',
>> }
>
>
> What I want to achieve is a file that is managed by puppet, but if the
> user touches it, puppet stops touching the file. Normal file resource with
> replace doesn't cut it in this case. replacemd5 should be set to the md5
> sum of the previous version of the file. I'd really like to see a custom
> type for this, that would handle templating some nice way, or at least
> allow one to specify more that one md5sum of previous versions. Obviously
> this doesn't work well for files that change often.
>
> So, is there a better way?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> PS. $dir is set to home so that you can dump the contents to a file and
> puppet apply it to test.
>
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