Remove the gnu parameter from concat

Previously, the concatfragments.sh script was would default to using
GNU-specific flags for find, sort, and xargs. This necessitated
explicit passing of a "gnu = false" parameter to the concat define in
order to successfully run the script without GNU-specific flags when
working with systems that do not by default include GNU versions of the
utilities (solaris, for example).

This commit modifies the concatfragments script such that GNU versions
of the utilities are not needed at all. It does this while preserving
the original use case for the GNU flags, which was to allow special
characters (like spaces) in the filenames, which it accomplished by
using GNU flags to separate fields using null characters instead of
newlines.

In order to preserve backwards-compatibility with existing puppet
installations that make use of the "gnu = false" parameter, the
parameter list for the concat define has not been changed. Rather, the
gnu parameter is now deprecated and ignored.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/manifests/init.pp b/manifests/init.pp
index f1fbc9f..1e6aee0 100644
--- a/manifests/init.pp
+++ b/manifests/init.pp
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # A system to construct files using fragments from other files or templates.
 #
-# This requires at least puppet 0.25 to work correctly as we use some 
+# This requires at least puppet 0.25 to work correctly as we use some
 # enhancements in recursive directory management and regular expressions
 # to do the work here.
 #
 # USAGE:
 # The basic use case is as below:
 #
-# concat{"/etc/named.conf": 
+# concat{"/etc/named.conf":
 #    notify => Service["named"]
 # }
 #
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #    content => template("named_conf_zone.erb")
 # }
 #
-# # add a fragment not managed by puppet so local users 
+# # add a fragment not managed by puppet so local users
 # # can add content to managed file
 # concat::fragment{"foo.com_user_config":
 #    target  => "/etc/named.conf",
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 #    ensure  => "/etc/named.conf.local"
 # }
 #
-# This will use the template named_conf_zone.erb to build a single 
+# This will use the template named_conf_zone.erb to build a single
 # bit of config up and put it into the fragments dir.  The file
 # will have an number prefix of 10, you can use the order option
 # to control that and thus control the order the final file gets built in.
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
 # There's some regular expression magic to figure out the puppet version but
 # if you're on an older 0.24 version just set $puppetversion = 24
 #
-# Before you can use any of the concat features you should include the 
+# Before you can use any of the concat features you should include the
 # class concat::setup somewhere on your node first.
 #
 # DETAIL:
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 # seem more complex than some of the one-liner alternatives you might find on
 # the net we do a lot of error checking and safety checks in the script to avoid
 # problems that might be caused by complex escaping errors etc.
-# 
+#
 # LICENSE:
 # Apache Version 2
 #
@@ -56,13 +56,13 @@
 # http://github.com/ripienaar/puppet-concat/
 #
 # CONTACT:
-# R.I.Pienaar <rip@devco.net> 
+# R.I.Pienaar <rip@devco.net>
 # Volcane on freenode
 # @ripienaar on twitter
 # www.devco.net
 
 
-# Sets up so that you can use fragments to build a final config file, 
+# Sets up so that you can use fragments to build a final config file,
 #
 # OPTIONS:
 #  - mode       The mode of the final file
@@ -78,16 +78,16 @@
 #  - Creates fragment directories if it didn't exist already
 #  - Executes the concatfragments.sh script to build the final file, this script will create
 #    directory/fragments.concat.   Execution happens only when:
-#    * The directory changes 
-#    * fragments.concat != final destination, this means rebuilds will happen whenever 
+#    * The directory changes
+#    * fragments.concat != final destination, this means rebuilds will happen whenever
 #      someone changes or deletes the final file.  Checking is done using /usr/bin/cmp.
 #    * The Exec gets notified by something else - like the concat::fragment define
 #  - Copies the file over to the final destination using a file resource
 #
 # ALIASES:
 #  - The exec can notified using Exec["concat_/path/to/file"] or Exec["concat_/path/to/directory"]
-#  - The final file can be referened as File["/path/to/file"] or File["concat_/path/to/file"]  
-define concat($mode = 0644, $owner = $::id, $group = $concat::setup::root_group, $warn = "false", $force = "false", $backup = "puppet", $gnu = "true", $order="alpha") {
+#  - The final file can be referened as File["/path/to/file"] or File["concat_/path/to/file"]
+define concat($mode = 0644, $owner = $::id, $group = $concat::setup::root_group, $warn = "false", $force = "false", $backup = "puppet", $gnu = undef, $order="alpha") {
     $safe_name   = regsubst($name, '/', '_', 'G')
     $concatdir   = $concat::setup::concatdir
     $version     = $concat::setup::majorversion
@@ -113,12 +113,6 @@ define concat($mode = 0644, $owner = $::id, $group = $concat::setup::root_group,
         default: { fail("Improper 'force' value given to concat: $force") }
     }
 
-    case $gnu {
-        'true',true,yes,on: { $gnuflag = "" }
-        'false',false,no,off: { $gnuflag = "-g" }
-        default: { fail("Improper 'gnu' value given to concat: $gnu") }
-    }
-
     case $order {
         numeric: { $orderflag = "-n" }
         alpha: { $orderflag = "" }
@@ -168,8 +162,8 @@ define concat($mode = 0644, $owner = $::id, $group = $concat::setup::root_group,
         subscribe => File[$fragdir],
         alias     => "concat_${fragdir}",
         require   => [ File[$fragdir], File["${fragdir}/fragments"], File["${fragdir}/fragments.concat"] ],
-        unless    => "${concat::setup::concatdir}/bin/concatfragments.sh -o ${fragdir}/${concat_name} -d ${fragdir} -t ${warnflag} ${forceflag} ${orderflag} ${gnuflag}",
-        command   => "${concat::setup::concatdir}/bin/concatfragments.sh -o ${fragdir}/${concat_name} -d ${fragdir} ${warnflag} ${forceflag} ${orderflag} ${gnuflag}",
+        unless    => "${concat::setup::concatdir}/bin/concatfragments.sh -o ${fragdir}/${concat_name} -d ${fragdir} -t ${warnflag} ${forceflag} ${orderflag}",
+        command   => "${concat::setup::concatdir}/bin/concatfragments.sh -o ${fragdir}/${concat_name} -d ${fragdir} ${warnflag} ${forceflag} ${orderflag}",
     }
     if $::id == 'root' {
       Exec["concat_${name}"]{