Cleaning up temp files with puppet

[nfwlpw]

So I have a puppet module, that gets a script from files/, runs that script, and after it's done, I'd like to remove it.

Unfortunately puppet doesn't seem to like to have 2 different File resource aliased to the same, so I can't do

file { "myfile":
    ensure => present,
    source => "puppet:///...",
}

file { "remove myfile":
    path => "myfile",
   ensure => absent,
}

Puppet gave the error: err: Failed to apply catalog: Cannot alias File[remove myfile]...myfile already declared...

The only work around I've found is using an exec resource.  Anyone know how to do this without exec?

Thank you

[Johan De Wit]

Thats the nature of puppet.

It describes the 'state' of your node. So the file cannot be present
and absent at the same time.


you could use an exec that wget/curl/... your tempfile, execute it, and
remove it, and using a creates => <some file created by the script> to
run it only when needed.

depends on what you exactly wants to achieve.











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[Kenton Brede]

How about ending your script with a command that removes itself?

/bin/rm path_to_script

or

/bin/rm $0

Kent

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