Defining hard links in puppet

Question

Is there a way to define hardlinks inside puppet manifest?

It seems file type can only define symbolic links, but I need it to be hard links in order to make some of my chrooted applications to work. For example, I need to hardlink

/etc/hosts -> $chroot/etc/hosts
/etc/resolvf.com -> $chroot/etc/resolv.conf

and so on.

What can be the simplest way to archive that?

Update: thanks, I've ended with following defines:

define hardlinkdir(source=$name, target) {                                                                                                                   
    exec {                                                                                                                                                   
        "hardlinkdir-$name":                                                                                                                                 
            command => "cp -r --link $target $source",                                                                                                       
            path    => "/usr/bin:/bin",                                                                                                                      
            creates => $source;                                                                                                                              
    }                                                                                                                                                        
}                                                                                                                                                            

define hardlink(source=$name, target) {                                                                                                                      
    exec {                                                                                                                                                   
        "hardlink-$name":                                                                                                                                    
            command => "ln --force $target $source",                                                                                                         
            path    => "/usr/bin:/bin",                                                                                                                      
            unless  => "test $source -ef $target";                                                                                                           
    }                                                                                                                                                        
}

Sure, they are not perfect, but they does the job and it's everything I need.

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

You can use also the statement "exec" if you can't find any other way.

exec { "hardlink1":
    command => "ln target source",
    path    => "/usr/local/bin:/bin",
    creates => "yourhardlink"
}