[chef] Re: Sync a directory from chef server to node

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Apr 9, 2013, at 7:29 AM, jfotop 
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> I tried using remote_directory resource, but empty directories where not
> created and also the file permissions where not as the original. 
> I also thought about creating a tar archive and untarring it on the node 
> (after
> copying it), but I want the resource to be idempotent.

You could use a tarball to provide the source filesystem meta-data, and then 
use rsync locally on the filesystem to ensure that the target directory 
structure has the same ownership/permissions as the tarball.

Kind of a screwy way to have to do that, but at least you would have rsync 
going for you to provide idempotency.

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