Puppet users - Dec 2010 - file: ensure => present, purge => true

Hello All,

     I''m not sure what I''m missing here, but when defining a
file
resource, to use as my yum repo, I can''t seem to be able to purge
other files in the directory.  For instance, I just want to have
base.repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/, so I''m using:
file { "/etc/yum.repos.d/base.repo":
     owner => root,
     group => root,
     mode => 0644,
     purge => true,
     recurse => true,
     force   => true,
     replace => true,
     content => template("yum/base.repo.erb")
     }
The code creates the file, but fails to purge the rest of the data in
that dir.  Can anyone see what I''m missing here?

Thanks,

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I''m using puppet 0.25.5

On Dec 16, 10:26 am, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>      I''m not sure what I''m missing here, but when
defining a file
> resource, to use as my yum repo, I can''t seem to be able to purge
> other files in the directory.  For instance, I just want to have
> base.repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/, so I''m using:
> file { "/etc/yum.repos.d/base.repo":
>      owner => root,
>      group => root,
>      mode => 0644,
>      purge => true,
>      recurse => true,
>      force   => true,
>      replace => true,
>      content => template("yum/base.repo.erb")
>      }
> The code creates the file, but fails to purge the rest of the data in
> that dir.  Can anyone see what I''m missing here?
>
> Thanks,
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 02:26, CraftyTech <hmmedina@gmail.com> wrote:
> I''m not sure what I''m missing here, but when defining a
file
> resource, to use as my yum repo, I can''t seem to be able to purge
> other files in the directory.
When you specify recurse and purge to a file resource you need to do
that on a *directory*, not a file within the directory.  So, in your
case you would need to give "/etc/yum.repos.d" as:

    file { "/etc/yum.repos.d": ensure => directory, recurse =>
true,
purge => true, source => ... }

Then you have two choices:

First, you can point the source for that statement to a puppet:// URL
that is a directory containing, for example, the ''base.repo''
file that
you want installed, and nothing else.  Puppet will then ensure that is
all that ends up in that directory.

Second, you can point it to an empty directory, then have extra,
separate file statements like the one you did in your question -
without the recurse and purge options - that define the individual
files.

Finally, you can actually combine both of those: if you explicitly
manage a file it will override the "default" that the recurse/purge
combination create, so you can have a base directory copied in place
and everything except what puppet manages automatically removed.

Regards,
    Daniel
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CraftyTech <hmmedina <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I''m using puppet 0.25.5
> 
> On Dec 16, 10:26 am, CraftyTech <hmmed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> >      I''m not sure what I''m missing here, but when
defining a file
> > resource, to use as my yum repo, I can''t seem to be able to
purge
> > other files in the directory.  For instance, I just want to have
> > base.repo under /etc/yum.repos.d/, so I''m using:
> > file { "/etc/yum.repos.d/base.repo":
> >      owner => root,
> >      group => root,
> >      mode => 0644,
> >      purge => true,
> >      recurse => true,
> >      force   => true,
> >      replace => true,
> >      content => template("yum/base.repo.erb")
> >      }
> > The code creates the file, but fails to purge the rest of the data in
> > that dir.  Can anyone see what I''m missing here?
> >
> > Thanks,
> 
I think you should do the following:

1- Put base.repo on Puppet master file server to be shared then
2- file { "/etc/yum.repos.d":
      owner => root,
      group => root,
      mode => 0644,
      purge => true,
      recurse => true,
      source => "puppet:///location_folder_which_contains_base.repo
}

It will delete all files other than base.repo


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