Re: [Puppet Users] Deployed but unmanaged file

Aaron Grewell
Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:14:43 -0000

That would be sweet.  For system-level files I want to overwrite and keep a
known state, but at the user level I would love to be able to push a default
and then let them customize.  You can get something similar with concat by
including a local file with additions but since modifications to the core
file won''t be retained it''s not the same.

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Nigel Kersten <nigel@puppetlabs.com>
wrote:

> I''ve long wanted the equivalent of a "conffile" in
Puppet.
>
> e.g. "replace this file if it''s still the same as the one
Puppet put down,
> but if it''s been modified from the default, don''t replace
it"
>
> I''ve wanted this in the past for things like a user .rc file,
where you
> want to be able to continually update the default, but not throw away any
> customization the user may have done.
>
>
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