Puppet users - Jan 2013 - file copy, multiple ignore doesn't work

I am trying the following to recursively copy a dir while ignoring things 
like .hg and a few others.

file { 
  "/etc/work-related-dir" :
      source => "/path/to/masterfiles/work-related-dir",
      recurse => ''inf'',
      owner => ''0'',
      group => ''0'',
      ignore => ''{.hg,*.conf~}'',
      checksum => ''mtime'',
      backup => false;
}

Running a noop mode tries to copy everything including the one that matches 
".hg, *.conf~". If I specify only a single parameter value for ignore,
i.e.
".hg", then it doesn''t try the copy of .hg directory and
works as expected.

Following an earlier post about this, I checked Ruby''s globing
options,and
found that the pattern I am providing matches multiple files in the source 
area.

Any help or suggestion would be appreciated.

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On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 3:17:39 PM UTC-6, iamauser
wrote:
>
> I am trying the following to recursively copy a dir while ignoring things 
> like .hg and a few others.
>
> file { 
>   "/etc/work-related-dir" :
>       source => "/path/to/masterfiles/work-related-dir",
>       recurse => ''inf'',
>       owner => ''0'',
>       group => ''0'',
>       ignore => ''{.hg,*.conf~}'',
>       checksum => ''mtime'',
>       backup => false;
> }
>
> Running a noop mode tries to copy everything including the one that 
> matches ".hg, *.conf~". If I specify only a single parameter
value for
> ignore, i.e. ".hg", then it doesn''t try the copy of .hg
directory and works
> as expected.
>
> Following an earlier post about this, I checked Ruby''s globing
options,and
> found that the pattern I am providing matches multiple files in the source 
> area.
>
>
When you say "you checked Ruby''s globbing options", do you
mean you
actually ran the glob against the target directory using the same Ruby that 
the master runs on?  It should be pretty easy to do that via irb, just to 
be sure, though I don''t actually see a problem with your glob.  Since
the
type docs specifically say that the ignore pattern is interpreted via 
Ruby''s globbing engine, I suggest you file a ticket if Puppet is
including
files that genuinely match your ''ignore'' glob.

Meanwhile, the Puppet type documentation subtly hints that you may be able 
to pass an array of ignore patterns.  I don''t know whether that
actually
works, but you could try it instead of glob alternation, i.e. "ignore =>
[''.hg'', ''*.conf~'']".


John

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When you say "you checked Ruby''s globbing options", do you
mean you 
> actually ran the glob against the target directory using the same Ruby that
> the master runs on?  It should be pretty easy to do that via irb, just to 
> be sure, though I don''t actually see a problem with your glob. 
Since the
> type docs specifically say that the ignore pattern is interpreted via 
> Ruby''s globbing engine, I suggest you file a ticket if Puppet is
including
> files that genuinely match your ''ignore'' glob.
>
>
Yes, I used irb to test the matching files with the patterns.
 
> Meanwhile, the Puppet type documentation subtly hints that you may be able 
> to pass an array of ignore patterns.  I don''t know whether that
actually
> works, but you could try it instead of glob alternation, i.e. "ignore
=>
> [''.hg'', ''*.conf~'']".
>
That worked... Thanks for the tips... I believe I tried this earlier, but 
missing a comma somewhere ;)
 
>
>
> John
>
>
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More a random question than anything.
I am going to assume the .hg files are from mercurial.
Assuming this I am wondering why you aren''t using something like
puppetlabs-vcsrepo on puppet forge to deploy the directory via mercurial.
It seems like a better idea in my brain.

Pete.

On 3 January 2013 07:17, iamauser <tapas.sarangi@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying the following to recursively copy a dir while ignoring things
> like .hg and a few others.
>
> file {
>   "/etc/work-related-dir" :
>       source => "/path/to/masterfiles/work-related-dir",
>       recurse => ''inf'',
>       owner => ''0'',
>       group => ''0'',
>       ignore => ''{.hg,*.conf~}'',
>       checksum => ''mtime'',
>       backup => false;
> }
>
> Running a noop mode tries to copy everything including the one that
> matches ".hg, *.conf~". If I specify only a single parameter
value for
> ignore, i.e. ".hg", then it doesn''t try the copy of .hg
directory and works
> as expected.
>
> Following an earlier post about this, I checked Ruby''s globing
options,and
> found that the pattern I am providing matches multiple files in the source
> area.
>
> Any help or suggestion would be appreciated.
>
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