Re: [Puppet Users] Query with use of recurse

2014-09-04 Thread jcbollinger
On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:49:22 PM UTC-5, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Wil Cooley > wrote: > >> >> No, recurse is only useful for copying directory to directory. >> >> What are you going to accomplish? Copying a source directory of symlink

Re: [Puppet Users] Query with use of recurse

2014-09-03 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Wil Cooley wrote: > > No, recurse is only useful for copying directory to directory. > > What are you going to accomplish? Copying a source directory of symlinks > as their targets? If so, there's a separate parameter for that. > > Wil > > > I have a separate UM

Re: [Puppet Users] Query with use of recurse

2014-09-02 Thread Wil Cooley
On Sep 2, 2014 5:43 AM, "Balasubramaniam Natarajan" wrote: > > Hi > > I have a query regarding how recurse behaves when we call it with "ensure => file"[1] compared with "ensure => directory"[2] ? > > Would it make any sense to call recurse with "ensure => file" ? No, recurse is only useful for c

[Puppet Users] Query with use of recurse

2014-09-02 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Hi I have a query regarding how recurse behaves when we call it with "ensure => file"[1] compared with "ensure => directory"[2] ? Would it make any sense to call recurse with "ensure => file" ? [1] file {'/home/bala': ensure=> file, source => "puppet:///files/home/bala/", sourcesel