[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#573430: Bug#573430: Bug#573430: provide $vardir/modules

[Nigel Kersten]

2010/3/12 Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com>:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:56:43AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> [2010.03.11.1731 +0100]:
>> > Micah suggested something similar in bug 571129 [1]. In bug 571130
>> > [2] I raised the question on whether modules/ (and templates/ and
>> > files/) should be located in /var/lib/puppet/ or /etc/puppet. It
>> > seems to me that all of these directories should be located in the
>> > same place.
>>
>> I disagree. Configuration files — and templates are such — should
>> live in /etc, and files dynamically created and modified by puppet
>> should be in /var/lib.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
>> /var/lib/puppet/modules is simply a canonical location to give
>> modules space for dyanmically managed files.
>>
>
> IIRC modules/ are actually puppet classes, manifests, files and templates.
> They're *not* dynamically generated by puppet when compiling a manifest.
> They're put in place by the system administrator from various ressources
> (either repositories checkouts or by writing modules himself).
>
> According to the definition above modules/ should be in /etc/ then.

I find myself conflicted over this.

Strictly speaking /etc/ seems like the more appropriate location, but
on the other hand, the module configuration feels very much analogous
to apache virtual hosts in /var/www/ ....


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> Mathias Gug
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