[PATCH/RFC] func: Simplify minion.conf creation

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:48 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > okay - I've found a usecase for this, now.
> >
> > bxen04 was renamed from another name - the make-minion-conf never
> > got reran so func was just not working.. If it was a thing in puppet
> > it would have been working.
> >
> > so... seems like your recommendation is a good one.
> 
> Apologies for not getting it tested on people1 like we talked about
> the other day.  Work took precedence.  But, I did find a nice hole in
> my current patch when I deployed it in another environment.  The
> Puppet[:hostcert] and Puppet[:hostprivkey] get evaluate by the puppet
> master, and end up being invalid on the clients.  I ended up using:
> 
>     cert_file = <%= Puppet[:certdir] %>/<%= fqdn %>.pem
>     key_file = <%= Puppet[:privatekeydir] %>/<%= fqdn %>.pem
> 
> in my environment, but that's not quite as nice as I'd envisioned.
> (And, of course, your test plan was well founded.  I should know
> better.  I'm glad you did. :)
> 
> I'll hopefully have time to update the patch in infrastructure and
> test this on people1 in the next few days.  I'll ping you on irc
> before I do so, to make sure someone is around in case it doesn't work
> out.  I have deployed this at work though, and it's working nicely
> there, so I'm more confident.
> 

thanks. I'm around until next friday then I'll be AFK for a while.

-sv