[Puppet Users] A simple solution to the "deep directory tree" problem

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:55:59AM -0700, Amos Shapira wrote:
Hello,

Like many others, I once again had to deal with creation of deep directory
trees with puppet. I did the usual:
file { [ "/a", "/a/b/", "/a/b/c"...]:
ensure => directory
}
And again got sick of it. I still didn't find a good answer for it on the
web so here is what I came up with in a moment of despair:

define core::mkdirp($owner = undef, $group = undef) {
exec { "mkdir -p ${name}":
creates => $name,
}

file { $name:
ensure => 'directory',
require => Exec["mkdir -p ${name}"],
owner => $owner,
group => $group,
}
}

Usage:

core::mkdirp { "/a/b/c/d":
owner => $user,
group => $group,
}

file { "/a/b/c/d/file.txt":
require => Core::Mkdirp["/a/b/c/d"],
...
}

So far it works beautifully for me but I want to hear what the community
thinks of it and whether there is a nicer solution I'm missing.

Thanks.

--Amos

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