On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:56:43AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Mathias Gug <math...@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. -- Mathias Gug Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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