also sprach Mathias Gug <math...@ubuntu.com> [2010.03.12.1738 +0100]: > > /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).
The directory is not to hold modules, but for modules to use it as scratch space. We could call it for-modules or modules-scratch-space, but that's a bit long and awkward, especially since this is not part of the user interface. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "politics is the entertainment branch of industry." -- frank zappa
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