[chef] Re: Find top-level directories according to file specificity, stow installed directories

[Allan Wind < >]

On 2010-10-20T17:36:18, Allan Wind wrote:
> I would like to create a recipe that installs the available top-level 
> directories 
> in files.  For example:
> 
> files/
>       default/
>               a/
>                       ...
>       redhat/
>               b/
>                       ...
> 
> on redhat it would mean calling remote_directory with 'a' and 
> 'b', otherwise just 'a'.  How do I find the directories in 
> question?

The private method preferences_for_path implements the search path, and
all public methods that make use of the former requires a 
directory component.

The attribute method file_filenames (including method manifest) 
dumps all files, so on can probably figure out how to extract 
all unique, top-level directories, then pass each through 
relative_filenames_in_preferred_directory and handle
the exception to figure out which applies.

In my case I needed to check a list of candidates so ended up
calling relative_filenames_in_preferred_directory for each and 
handling the exception.


/Allan
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