Is it possible to get puppet to combine recursive and non-recursive changes to a given directory

Question

I am using puppet 3.8.4 on debian. I want to recursively set the owner and group on a set directory, but only set permissions on the directory itself ie. I don't want to chmod anything in the dir only chown/chgrp it.

I have tried the following...

file {[ "/foo/bar" , ] : ensure => directory, owner => root, group => bar, recurse => true, require => [ User[root], Group[bar], ], } file {[ "/foo/bar" , ] : ensure => directory, mode => 0640, # +x automatically added to directories recurse => false, } 

But of course puppet then complains of a Duplicate declaration: File[/foo/bar] if you do that.

Is there a way in puppet to do this without having to do the top level directory and then all the files and folders under it explicitly?

Answer 1

Just to put it as an answer also: you can't.

The namevar parameter is path, so you can't have 2 file resources with the same path.

Check the documentation about file resource.

Answer 2

Not tested, but this should work:

For the second resource, just name it differently and set an explicit path:

file {"/foo/bar_root": path => "/foo/bar", ensure => directory, mode => 0640, # +x automatically added to directories recurse => false, }