Puppet users - Mar 2007 - Intended behavior of sourceselect => all [Proper]

Hi all, again.

It looks like my last attempt of sending this message got cut off, at least
it looks like that in the archive[1], so I''m trying again:

<rerun>
Luke Kanies suggested that I take this up here since his memory on the
subject was a bit poor.

I am trying to cat various files together into one file. According to the
documentation "sourceselect => all" might do this.
</rerun>

From the language reference [2]:
    "Whether to copy all valid sources, or just the first one. Valid values
are first, all."""

Giventhe following code

    file { "/etc/test":
        sourceselect => all,
        source => [
                "puppet://puppetmaster.simula.no/files/linux/test1",
                "puppet://puppetmaster.simula.no/files/linux/test2"
        ],
    }

/etc/test will only contain the content of the first file. Luke tested this
as well with the same result. Is this the intended behavior? Is it a bug?


With best regards,


Martin Opstad Reistadbakk

[1] http://mail.madstop.com/pipermail/puppet-users/2007-March/002074.html
[2]
http://www.reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/reference/typedocs.html#file

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On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:58 AM, Martin Opstad Reistadbakk
wrote:
> /etc/test will only contain the content of the first file. Luke  
> tested this as well with the same result. Is this the intended  
> behavior? Is it a bug?
I just checked the test code, and it confirmed what I expected:  This  
parameter only affects recursion.  Take the following example:

/source1/file1
/source2/file2

and the following code:

   file { "/dest": source => ["/source-none",
"/source1", "/
source2"], recurse => true }

Normally, if you did a recursive copy, the first source that existed  
(in this case, /source1) would be recursively copied and the rest  
would be ignored.    In this case, that would mean that /dest would  
only have file1 in it.  With sourceselect => all, all found sources  
are recursively copied, with earlier sources winning out over later  
sources.

The ''template'' function works like you expect, by
concatenating the
results of all arguments.  The ''file'' function does not, but
it could
be converted so it does; I''m slightly uncomfortable with this whole  
method of listing lots of files, many of which don''t exist, but I  
know it''s a time-honored practice.

  --
  God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and  
invented
  cages.  -- Jacques Deval
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so this is legal?

file { "foobar":
   ...
   content => template("foo", "bar"),
   ...
}

Wow. I never knew about this. Awesome! I''m going to test this later 
today and will update the Template docs to include this info if I see it 
works.

Best,
Adam
> 
> The ''template'' function works like you expect, by
concatenating the
> results of all arguments.  The ''file'' function does not,
but it could
> be converted so it does; I''m slightly uncomfortable with this
whole
> method of listing lots of files, many of which don''t exist, but I
> know it''s a time-honored practice.
> 
>   --
>   God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and  
> invented
>   cages.  -- Jacques Deval
>   ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>   Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com
> 
> 
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On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Adam Kosmin wrote:
> so this is legal?
>
> file { "foobar":
>    ...
>    content => template("foo", "bar"),
>    ...
> }
>
> Wow. I never knew about this. Awesome! I''m going to test this
later
> today and will update the Template docs to include this info if I  
> see it
> works.
Should work fine; please let me know if it does not.

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On 3/30/07, Luke Kanies <luke@madstop.com> wrote:
>
> Should work fine; please let me know if it does not.

Thanks a lot for your help. Looks very promising.

Our old configuration system (confpar) was more or less based on
concatenating files. Makes it a lot easier for us to convert some of the old
rules.


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Martin Opstad Reistadbakk <martior@gmail.com>

When I want to laugh, I''ll take Bob Saget thank you very much.


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