Re: Why puppet uses config instead of configs?

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

susmit shannigrahi wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  In puppet when we add a new file, we use this lines in the .pp files:
>
>          source => 'puppet:///config/web/applications/FreeMedia-error.html',
>
>  where as the actual location of the file (FreeMedia-error.html) is
>
>  [susmit@puppet1 puppet]$ find -name FreeMedia-error.html
>  ./configs/web/applications/FreeMedia-error.html
>
>  So the source in the .pp file should be
>  'puppet:///configs/web/applications/FreeMedia-error.html'
>
>  Why this discrepancy? Just curious...
>     
The [config] fileserver mount may point to /path/to/configs/, which 
would allow this discrepancy to exist.

If you are going to change anything, maybe consider using [files] vs. 
/path/to/files/ since that "name" for the "mount" appears to be most 
commonly used.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip