[Puppet Users] generate() function help

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Jakov Sosic wrote:

I want to run script which is distributed with my module, but the problem
is I have to then hardcode the path to the script in the generate function
call, for example:

generate("/etc/puppet/**environments/${environment}/**
modules/mymodule/scripts/**myscript")

But what If some other site uses other path to their modules, or doesn't
use environments at all? Is it possible somehow to detect the dir in which
the module is installed, so that I can use something like:


generate("$modulepath/scripts/**myscript")

On 12/27/2012 07:57 PM, Nan Liu wrote:
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Jakov Sosic wrote:

I want to run script which is distributed with my module, but the
problem is I have to then hardcode the path to the script in the
generate function call, for example:

generate("/etc/puppet/__environments/${environment}/__modules/mymodule/scripts/__myscript")

But what If some other site uses other path to their modules, or
doesn't use environments at all? Is it possible somehow to detect
the dir in which the module is installed, so that I can use
something like:


generate("$modulepath/scripts/__myscript")


See stdlib:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/blob/master/lib/puppet/parser/functions/get_module_path.rb

On 12/28/2012 12:37 AM, Jakov Sosic wrote:

I've found that already. But I've decided to write my own function which
returns path to current module directory. If that doesn't succeed then
I'll use get_module_path.