Puppet

So currently we have the ignore parameter which parallels to ‘exclude’ for rsync:

file { "/Users/ken/tmp/ignore/testcontent/":
  ensure => directory,
  mode => "0666",
  source => "/Users/ken/tmp/ignore/sourcecontent",
  ignore => "*.ignore",
  recurse => true,
}

What would be nice is the converse of this … lets call it ‘include’ for now:

file { "/Users/ken/tmp/ignore/testcontent/":
  ensure => directory,
  mode => "0666",
  source => "/Users/ken/tmp/ignore/sourcecontent",
  include => "*.include",
  recurse => true,
}

And it probably should behave the same way ie. take an array – support wildcard globing. And probably should allow mixing ‘ignore’ and ‘include’.

On a side-note ‘ignore’ is probably best aliased to ‘exclude’ in this case. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

What do people think?