include isn't working with Salt 3006

[James McKinney]

{% include 'apache/includes/' + name + '.include.jinja' ignore missing %}

We have:

  extra_filerefs:
    - $REPO_DIR/salt/apache/includes/cove.include.jinja

But ErrorDocument 500 isn't getting written.

[James McKinney]

The same is happening for me with {% include 'postgres/files/conf/shared.include' %}

I tried:

• passing --extra-filerefs both with absolute and salt:// paths
• using absolute path in include
• changing to extends, adding a block in shared.include and using that block in the conf files
• using absolute path in extends
• Removing extra_filerefs from Saltfile and repeating some of the above
• {% import_text 'postgres/files/conf/shared.include' as shared %} {{ shared }} from saltstack/salt#7532 (comment)

file.managed doesn't have a sources option like file.append in order to create a target file from many source files. file.accumulated doesn't have a source option. We can't use file.prepend or file.append, because the old file content won't be removed.

Although we can add shared.include as a separate file (e.g. looping over configurations, and using loop.index0 to prefix the files), this makes changes harder to deploy, since re-ordering or removing a configuration will rename the new files, but not remove the old files. Instead, a developer needs to include it in the configuration file.

Nothing seems to work.

[James McKinney]

Another option is to use shared.include as the template, and then provide the custom settings (max_wal_size, etc.) as Pillar data. (Basically, reverse the direction of the inclusion.)

I'll do this because Salt seems incapable of keeping extra-filerefs working across versions (not the first time it breaks).

[James McKinney]

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