Puppet users - Aug 2006 - subscribed files sourced from puppet fileserver

So I have

     $base = "/opt/local/etc"
     remotefile {
         "$base/saslauthd.conf":
             source => "apps/saslauthd/saslauthd.conf",
             mode => 400, # This file contains special info
             owner => root;
         "$base/saslauthd.init":
             source => "apps/saslauthd/saslauthd.init";

     }

and

     service { cswsaslauthd:
         subscribe => [
             file["$base/saslauthd.conf"],
             file["$base/saslauthd.init"]
         ],
         ensure => running
     }

in a manifest, and the remotefile function looks like:

define remotefile(source, mode = false, group = false, owner = false,
recurse = true) {
     file { $name:
         source => "puppet://puppet/dist/$source",
         group => $group ? { false => "root", default =>
$group },
         owner => $owner ? { false => "root", default =>
$owner },
         ignore => ".svn",
         recurse => $recurse
     }

     # By default, use the mode on the server
     case $mode {
         false: { # nothing
         }
         default: {
             file { $name:
                 mode => $mode
             }
         }
     }
}

Any changes I make to saslauthd.conf or saslauthd.init on the node
are moved aside as saslauthd.confcentral and saslauthd.initcentral -
this is not what I want, at least until I make the remotefiles
templates. In the meantime, how can I roll out initial copies from my
remotefiles location, then have puppet assure that they are there,
but not care about the contents?
RTS
--
Ryan Schwartz
Director of Systems Operations
Joyent, Inc.
TextDrive, Inc.