Use as submodule

[AntoineCezar]

I can not see how to use this has a git submodule.
I'm forced to create a state to override all salt:// declarations with include and extend to get things work.
Not being able to use this as submodule reduce the interest of the project from "plug and play" to "cherry pick". And cherry pick won't bring contributions..
I've found no solution for now. But I'm new to saltstack. I may have missed something.

[basepi]

If you put this formula as a subdirectory to your file_roots, then you can put something like this in your top.sls:

basepi:
  '*':
    - salt.minion
    - salt.master

Now both the minion and master states will be run, and you can keep them in their own subdirectory or submodule.

Does that answer your question?

[AntoineCezar]

It didn't work like that for me.
In my file_roots I did git submodule add https://github.com/saltstack-formulas/salt.git
So my tree looks like that:

file_roots/
    top.sls
    salt/
        salt/
            files/
                master
                minion
        master.sls
        minion.sls

In my top.sls I must call salt.salt.minion.
But that's not so annoying.
But the fact salt:// targets file_roots/, is. It fails to find salt://salt/files/minion.
I must create a file_roots/minion to override ``salt://` declarations:

include:
  - salt.salt.minion

extend:
  salt-minion:
    file.managed:
      - source: salt://salt/salt/files/minion

And use it instead. I hope there must be another way.

[basepi]

Ah, right, forgot the second salt in there. Really we should probably reorganize this formula to be in the root directory of the repo, so when you add it as a submodule it only adds one directory of depth. I think that's probably the best solution, and should fix the formula. I'll change that shortly.