On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 11:41:17AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > I had a number of symbolic links for file resources and didn't consider the > impact. > > source => "puppet:///modules/$some_module/some_file_which_is_a_symbolic_link" > > would actually transfer the link and not the content of the source link. > > Moving it to templates and appending .erb to the names handled things fine > but I thought I should toss this out there because it was unexpected.
I guess it is supposed to be feature but in my opinion its only value is when you copy a directory structure recursivly and there are possible links in that directory. However, you should get around this when you specify links => follow instead of links => manage (which appears to be the default). See http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/stable/type.html#links -Stefan
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