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Absolute Paths for Templates? #360
Description
Not sure if I'm being stupid here but can I not use an absolute path for a template ?
e.g.
<file destination='src/${PLASTER_PARAM_ModuleName}.psm1' source='${PLASTER_PARAM_TemplatesFolderPath}\template.psm1' />
where ${PLASTER_PARAM_TemplatesFolderPath} goes to \Server\fileshare\
The error:
"template.psm1' specified in the file directive in the template manifest cannot be an absolute path.
Change the path to a relative path."
Which seems really strange. My use case is that I am sharing a module that creates other modules for a company, and I want to reference a shared template in the area.
I'm going to work around by copying it local but wasn't sure if it was just a bad error message and I'm missing something obvious. I did look around but I didn't see anything related, though I could just be being dumb.
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rkeithhill commentedon Apr 21, 2020
This is limitation that we might be able to lift. The intent is to prevent a Plaster template from modifying a directory other than the dir that you're applying the template too. However, copy file from another location into the template source dir seems like that might be a safe thing to do.
DevOpsBoondoggles commentedon Apr 26, 2020
I am probably too rubbish at Powershell to assist with this but happy to try if someone could point me where to look