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Asked: 2016-12-15 08:17:49 +0800 CST

How to set Puppet to not manage any files not in source?

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I'd like to overwrite some of the files in a directory:

file {
  ensure  => directory,
  source  => 'puppet:///modules/my_module/my_directory',
  mode    => '0600',
  recurse => true,
}

However, this changes the mode of every file in the directory. Since most of the files (thousands, changing every day) should be handled by another application, how can I tell Puppet to leave all files not in source alone? I can't use ignore because that requires that I know in advance the names (or at least globs) of files I don't want to manage.

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2 Answers

  1. You might be looking for recurse => remote [ref], which instructs puppet to only manage the files in the destination that come from the the source.

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  2. Try the source_permissions parameter. Of course this assumes that you can set appropriate permissions in the source repository.

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