added some ideas from asteven and a bit more description about the order

in the manpage
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Daniel Heule 2014-01-31 17:56:55 +01:00
commit 197fabf40a
3 changed files with 10 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -212,14 +212,13 @@ class CdistObject(object):
"""Checks wether this cdist object exists on the file systems."""
return os.path.exists(self.absolute_path)
def create(self):
def create(self, allow_overwrite=False):
"""Create this cdist object on the filesystem.
"""
try:
cdexist_ok = True if os.environ.get('CDIST_ALLOW_OVERRIDE',"false") == 'true' else False
os.makedirs(self.absolute_path, exist_ok=cdexist_ok)
os.makedirs(self.absolute_path, exist_ok=allow_overwrite)
absolute_parameter_path = os.path.join(self.base_path, self.parameter_path)
os.makedirs(absolute_parameter_path, exist_ok=cdexist_ok)
os.makedirs(absolute_parameter_path, exist_ok=allow_overwrite)
except EnvironmentError as error:
raise cdist.Error('Error creating directories for cdist object: %s: %s' % (self, error))