Provide file path to environment about marionette HOT 2 CLOSED

My immediate reaction is that this should already work:

 // ~/Repos/github.com/skx/blah/input.rule
 file { 
    target => "/foo"
    source => "files/file_relative_to_this_file"
 }

Would use ~/Repos/github.com/skx/blah/files/file_relative_to_this_file. You could also use:

  dir = `pwd`

  ...
      source => "${dir}/files/${arch}/input.template"

Am I missing something myself? Otherwise I don't have any particular objection though.

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Both of these solutions work but they are similar in the sense that the current working directory has to be consistent. I think my concerns might be affected by how I'm splitting up my rules, which is different from how you have yours in the second example.

If you had a slightly deeper tree, and for some reason ran from inside that tree, then the paths to the files would be wrong.

I might have to think on this, because maybe it's simpler to enforce the expectation that it's run from a specific directory consistently. I came up with a change here to add DIR to the environment, but it has a bug where the resetting of the DIR value after an include, affects the include too. I think I'd have to duplicate the environment passed in, and I'm not sure how to do that yet.

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