Puppet

Sourceselect=all does not to work below the top level directory being copied.

For examples, I’ll assume the following bit of manifest:

file { “/somewhere”: source => [“puppet://server/a”,

          "puppet://server/b"],

sourceselect => all, recurse => true }

It’s fine with the following source tree …

/server/ |– a/ | |– afile1 | |– adir/ | | |-afile2 |– b/ | |– bfile1 | |– bdir/ | | |-bfile2

However if /server/a and /server/b have subfolders with the same name but different contents, then only the subfolder+contents from a is copied. For example …

/server/ |– a/ | |– afile1 | |– commondir/ | | |– afile2 |– b/ | |– bfile1 | |– commondir/ | | |– bfile2

…. in this case /server/b/commondir/bfile2 is not copied even though it is not a repeat of a file in /server/a/… .

This may seem picky, but it prevents (for example) the perfectly reasonable scenario of …

file { “/usr/local/share/icons”: source => [“puppet://server/puppetfiles/app1/icons”,

          "puppet://server/puppetfiles/app2/icons",
          "puppet://server/puppetfiles/app3/icons"],

sourceselect => all, recurse => true }

…. given the layers of common directory structure that will exist under the icons folders.