Hi Chris,

> On 18 Nov 2017, at 15:07, Chris Denneen <cdenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Can you use an ERB template to construct the changes you require rather than 
> augeas?

There is a new template engine since Puppet 4: EPP (Embedded Puppet)
This prevents people from doing weird ruby stuff in a file.
Templates should be used to only present data.

> If not another suggestion would be 1 file resource from src to temp location, 
> which only gets updated when src changes. An Exec that is refreshonly that 
> copies from temp to dest (which is notified by file resource) and finally 
> Augeas that updates dest file. 

No no no. Please don’t do a tempfile and an exec resource. Use a template 
instead.


> The template is obviously your most efficient method using a single resource. 
Yes!

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