diff -r a2342f26c9de -r b0b56e0f8c7f dev/provisioning/modules/puppi/manifests/info/readme.pp
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/dev/provisioning/modules/puppi/manifests/info/readme.pp	Fri Jan 15 15:35:00 2016 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+# Define puppi::info::readme
+#
+# This is a puppi info plugin that provides a Readme text which can be
+# used to show local info on the managed server and eventually run custom commands.
+#
+#  puppi::info::readme { "myapp":
+#    description => "Guidelines for myapp setup",
+#    readme => "myapp/readme.txt" ,
+#    run     => "myapp -V",
+#  }
+#
+define puppi::info::readme (
+  $description       = '',
+  $readme            = '',
+  $autoreadme        = 'no',
+  $run               = '',
+  $source_module     = 'undefined',
+  $templatefile      = 'puppi/info/readme.erb' ) {
+
+  require puppi
+  require puppi::params
+
+  $bool_autoreadme = any2bool($autoreadme)
+
+  file { "${puppi::params::infodir}/${name}":
+    ensure  => present,
+    mode    => '0750',
+    owner   => $puppi::params::configfile_owner,
+    group   => $puppi::params::configfile_group,
+    require => Class['puppi'],
+    content => template($templatefile),
+    tag     => 'puppi_info',
+  }
+
+  $readme_source = $readme ? {
+    ''      => 'puppet:///modules/puppi/info/readme/readme',
+    default => $readme,
+  }
+
+  file { "${puppi::params::readmedir}/${name}":
+    ensure  => present,
+    mode    => '0644',
+    owner   => $puppi::params::configfile_owner,
+    group   => $puppi::params::configfile_group,
+    require => File['puppi_readmedir'],
+    source  => $readme_source,
+    tag     => 'puppi_info',
+  }
+
+  if $bool_autoreadme == true {
+  file { "${puppi::params::readmedir}/${name}-custom":
+    ensure  => present,
+    mode    => '0644',
+    owner   => $puppi::params::configfile_owner,
+    group   => $puppi::params::configfile_group,
+    require => File['puppi_readmedir'],
+    source  => [
+      "puppet:///modules/${source_module}/puppi/info/readme/readme-${::hostname}" ,
+      "puppet:///modules/${source_module}/puppi/info/readme/readme-${::role}" ,
+      "puppet:///modules/${source_module}/puppi/info/readme/readme-default" ,
+      "puppet:///modules/puppi/info/readme/readme-${::hostname}" ,
+      "puppet:///modules/puppi/info/readme/readme-${::role}" ,
+      'puppet:///modules/puppi/info/readme/readme-default'
+    ],
+    tag     => 'puppi_info',
+    }
+  }
+
+}