Package: puppet Version: 2.7.18-2 Severity: important Dear maintainers,
I am building a number of Wheezy-based servers for my organisation and have run into what is for us a show-stopper Puppet bug. The bug does not appear in Squeeze. Consider the following 'file' resource: file { "/tmp/example": source => "puppet:///modules/example/example.$fqdn", links => follow, } If, on the puppetmaster, /etc/puppet/modules/example/files/example.<fqdn> were a symlink to another file, the file may not be created on the puppet client with an error indicating a mismatched checksum. The error might look like: err: /Stage[pre]/Example/File[/tmp/example]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not rename temporary file /tmp/example.puppettmp_4293 to /tmp/example: File written to disk did not match checksum; discarding changes ( vs {md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) at /etc/puppet/modules/example/manifests/init.pp:12 at /etc/puppet/modules/example/manifests/init.pp:12 If the file is created already, for example by using touch to create an empty file, Puppet will not touch the file at all and will fail to update its contents - silently. When using 'puppet agent --test --verbose --debug' or 'puppetd -tvd', there is no mention of the file in the output of the command, but the resource is present in reports on our Puppet Dashboard and marked as unchanged. Applying the patch [1] in the upstream bug [2] to the client resolves the issue for us. As the upstream bug appears to be being ignored completely by the upstream maintainers, can you please carry the patch in the Debian package? [1] - http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7680#note-6 [2] - http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7680 Best regards, Chris -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages puppet depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.9 ii puppet-common 2.7.18-2 ii ruby1.8 1.8.7.358-6 Versions of packages puppet recommends: ii ruby [rdoc] 4.9 Versions of packages puppet suggests: pn etckeeper <none> pn puppet-el <none> pn vim-puppet <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/puppet changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org