devel/rubygem-puppet-modulebuilder 2.1.0 FreeBSD

The purpose of this tool is to take a given local module directory and compile it into a .tar file, known as the tarball, that can then be installed directly by Puppet on a target machine or uploaded onto the Puppet Forge so that it can be accessed publicly.

As part of this process any non-deliverable aspects of the module, parts of it related to the modules development or testing for example, are stripped away leaving only the documentation and the puppet/ruby code that is needed for the module to function.

The parts of the module to be excluded are defined in a .pdkignore, .pmtignore or .gitignore file with the first one to be found in this given order being used. Any directories or files that are listed in the ignore file are then excluded, allowing the user to customize what is and what is not excluded.