Is "service.running watch file" suitable to distribute the service binaries?

[Markus Kramer]

I have successfully used "service.running watch file" for a configuration file as in

MyService:
  service.running:
    - watch:
      - file: /somewhere/configfile


Is it advisable to use the same expression to also distribute the binaries (10MB in 100 files) as in

MyService:
  service.running:
    - watch:
      - file: /somewhere/configfile
      - file: /somewhere_else/binary1
      - file: /somewhere_else/binary2
::snip::
      - file: /somewhere_else/binary99
      - file: /somewhere_else/binary100
 
In an update, only 20 kb in 3 binary files are likely to change.
I like the idea to use the same expression for configuration files and binaries, but I dislike that I have to mention each and every file.

Is there a more suitable expression that also transfers only the changes?


Background: the binaries are bbfreezed Python.
Actually 3MB in 70 files are changed in an update, but only because the time stamps in .pyc files are not working properly (all .py files appear changed).
I can either fix the reason for the wrong time stamp or simply ignore them.


Thank you

[Markus Kramer]

I forgot that distribution is done by the expression

/somewhere/configfile:
  file.managed:
    - source: salt://somewhere/configfile

And I found

/somewhere_else/MyService.d:
  file.recurse:
    - source: salt://somewhere_else/MyService.d

After reading on, I found https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/663 (requisites can use globs for matching)
The documentation http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/requisites.html misses to mention that "watch file" can use a glob (*).

Tomorrow, I will try out

MyService:
  service.running:
    - watch:
      - file: /somewhere/configfile

      - file: /somewhere_else/MyService.d/*

[Nicholas Capo]

Wow! Thanks for the hint about globs!

Nicholas

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