John,
I think where you are going might be similar to a thought I had. Your code
is a bit confusing to me and I don't know exactly what it is trying to do.
I don't know yet what regsubs means, nor the ^ or \0/ mean. I will look
it up and try to figure it out.
My thoughts on this were (I'm using pseudocode and not sure if this is
possible, but I am sure you will understand where I am going)
for f in ".../Preferences/" #Read each file and folder in
/modules/name_of_module_files/Preferences on Pupppet Master
do
file { ".../Preferences/${f}" : #Every file and folder would have a unique
name
source => "puppet:///modules/${module_name}/Preferences/${f}", #Every
source would be unique file and folder in Preferences directory of Master
}
done
So, is it possible in puppet to loop a resource based on the contents of a
directory? My initial search has come up empty. I would think this would
accomplish what I want, and not have a declaration error.
On Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:52:40 AM UTC-5, jcbollinger wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 6:35:53 PM UTC-5, Neil - Puppet List wrote:
>>
>> file { "/System/Library/User
>> Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/${source}" : # the source is
>> the file from the line directly below, this seems true as the correct files
>> copy when I have only
>>
>> No its just not like that
>>
>> $source would need to be defined in or passed to the scope your file
>> resource is in.
>> It does not refer to the source parameter to the file resource itself.
>>
>
> In particular, in the example code it evaluates to an empty string.
> That's why the files are going to the expected location when the define is
> used only once, and why there is a duplicate resource when the define is
> used more than once.
>
>
>
>> To try and get back on the right track i suggest you try just putting two
>> files in place one from each calling class.
>>
>> I really don't think a recursive directory is what you want. And I don't
>> think having two of them will ever work.
>>
>
> No, having two declarations of the Preferences directory will never work,
> but see below.
>
>
>
>> You should be specifying the names of the individual files.
>>
>
> That is the way I would recommend doing it. Recursive directories cause
> no end of headaches.
>
> Nevertheless, although you cannot declare the directory multiple times,
> you can give it it multiple source directories and instruct it to use them
> all. That would be closer to the approach currently being attempted. It
> might look something like this:
>
> #
> # Class parameter $applications is expected to provide either
> # a single application (module) name or an array of such names.
> #
> class mac_managed_preferences($applications) {
> $preference_sources = regsubst($applications, '^.*$',
> 'puppet:///modules/\0/Preferences')
>
> file { '/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences':
> ensure => 'directory',
> owner => 'root',
> group => 'wheel',
> mode => '0600',
> recurse => true,
> source => $preference_sources,
> sourceselect => 'all'
> }
> }
>
>
> John
>
>
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