[Puppet Users] How to recursively ship files while keeping their modes

On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:43:58 PM UTC+2, Marc Haber wrote:

Hi,

I have defined a resource like this:

file { "/etc/foo/conf.d" :
ensure => directory,
recurse => true,
purge => true,
force => true,
owner => root,
group => root,
source => "puppet:///modules/foo/client/etc/foo/conf.d",
}

This works fine.

However the directory contains both snippets that need to be taken
verbatim (with mode 644) and executeables that need to be executes and
their output taken (with mode 755). It is ok to deliver the
executeables, since the code running on the target which builds the
actual foo.conf out of the contents of foo/conf.d takes care of this,
but it needs the mode for doing so.

This mechanism is in use inside a Debian package, and I would like to
be of least surprise for the casual user, so I'd like to keep this
scheme albeit puppet would be able to generate a monolithic
configuration itself.

Puppet seems to always reset the access bits for "others", so 644
mutates to 640 on the target system. I cannot say whether this is
deliberate configuration of the people running the puppet master or
whether this is a feature of puppet.

Is this a feature of puppet? If yes, is there a possibility to have
puppet 2.7.18 ship the files with the mode given to them in the
modules/foo/client/etc/foo/conf.d directory on the Master?

Greetings
Marc

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