[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#500848: comparison of String with 0 failed

[Jayen Ashar]

ok, that helped, and now i have a different problem.

if you've got control over the docs, maybe make the tidy/recurse section 
like the file/recurse section, in that it lists valid values.  I thought 
they'd be the same.

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#file
recurse
Whether and how deeply to do recursive management. Valid values are 
true, false, inf. Values can also match (?-mix:^[0-9]+$).

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#tidy
recurse
If target is a directory, recursively descend into the directory looking 
for files to tidy.

thanks,
jayen

Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:58:23AM +1000, Jayen Ashar wrote:
>> Package: puppet
>> Version: 0.24.4-8~bpo40+1
>> Severity: minor
>>
>> my puppetmaster manifest has:
>>   tidy {
>>     "/c/z3208682/test_tidy":
>>     matches => "README.desktop",
>>     recurse => inf,
>>     require => [ File["/etc/kde-profile"], File["/etc/kderc"]];
>>   }
>>
>> my system has:
>> /c/z3208682/test_tidy/
>> /c/z3208682/test_tidy/z3208682
>> /c/z3208682/test_tidy/z3208682/Desktop
>> /c/z3208682/test_tidy/z3208682/Desktop/README.desktop
>>
>> the puppet client gets the error:
>> Thu Oct 02 04:52:36 +1000 2008 //Node[default]/staff/staff_readme/Tidy[/c/z3208682/test_tidy] (err): Failed to generate additional resources during transaction: comparison of String with 0 failed
> 
> If I remember correctly, recurse => inf doesn't work (this goes back to at
> least a 0.1x release) and you need to use recurse => true instead.  Try
> that, and if it works then at least everyone knows the source of the
> problem.  <grin>
> 
> - Matt

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