Puppet users - Oct 2006 - Parent directory handling of file type?

Hi all,

Is there maybe an undocumented parameter with which to tell puppet to
create missing parent directories when using the ''file'' type?
And if
not, should there be?

I actually expected it to be default behaviour to create missing
parent directories when doing something like:

{{{

file { "/usr/local/svn/repos":
  ensure => directory,
  owner => root
}

}}}

in the case where /usr/local/svn does not yet exist?

Now I find myself just creating an ''exec'' with the following,
bypassing the builtin ''file'' type, because it doesn''t
do what I
expect:

{{{

exec { "mkdir -p /usr/local/svn/repos":
  path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
  user => root
}

}}}

It works, of course, but I thought the idea was to try to use the
builtin types as much as possible.

Am I looking at this the wrong way? Maybe there are other
considerations I haven''t yet thought of. Any comment appreciated.

Thijs

Thijs Oppermann wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there maybe an undocumented parameter with which to tell puppet to
> create missing parent directories when using the ''file''
type? And if
> not, should there be?
> 
> I actually expected it to be default behaviour to create missing
> parent directories when doing something like:
> 
> {{{
> 
> file { "/usr/local/svn/repos":
>   ensure => directory,
>   owner => root
> }
> 
> }}}
> 
> in the case where /usr/local/svn does not yet exist?
> 
> Now I find myself just creating an ''exec'' with the
following,
> bypassing the builtin ''file'' type, because it
doesn''t do what I
> expect:
> 
> {{{
> 
> exec { "mkdir -p /usr/local/svn/repos":
>   path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
>   user => root
> }
> 
> }}}
> 
> It works, of course, but I thought the idea was to try to use the
> builtin types as much as possible.
> 
> Am I looking at this the wrong way? Maybe there are other
> considerations I haven''t yet thought of. Any comment appreciated.
I haven''t figured out a good way to recursively create parent 
directories; this is probably as good as any.

Maybe I''ll take another stab at this for 0.20, but...

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