Paul Tötterman
2014-Apr-24 13:33 UTC
[Puppet Users] A file managed by puppet that is left alone if customized
Hi, I'm managing workstations using puppet, and I was wondering if there's a better way to do this: $dir = inline_template('<%=ENV["HOME"]%>') define customizable_file($source=undef,$template=undef,$replacemd5='') {> $tmplname = $template ? { > undef => "$name.common", > default => "$template", > } > file { "$tmplname": > source => $source, > } > exec { "cp $tmplname $name": > onlyif => "test ! -e $name -o \"$(md5sum $name|cut -d' ' -f1)\" = > \"$replacemd5\"", > path => ['/bin', '/usr/bin'], > require => File["$tmplname"], > } > } > customizable_file { "$dir/foo-$::hostname": > source => 'file:///etc/motd', > template => "$dir/foo-common", > replacemd5 => 'e43e23c6d9a376bedd1ae405be4fdf97', > }What I want to achieve is a file that is managed by puppet, but if the user touches it, puppet stops touching the file. Normal file resource with replace doesn't cut it in this case. replacemd5 should be set to the md5 sum of the previous version of the file. I'd really like to see a custom type for this, that would handle templating some nice way, or at least allow one to specify more that one md5sum of previous versions. Obviously this doesn't work well for files that change often. So, is there a better way? Cheers, Paul PS. $dir is set to home so that you can dump the contents to a file and puppet apply it to test. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/a5a6e496-5853-4a47-a7fb-14ab5f6c1f4e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.