[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#593125: puppet: 2.6.0 produces empty files on client with 2.5.x puppetmaster

[Stephen Gran]

Package: puppet
Version: 2.6.0-2
Severity: normal

Hello,

We run 4 squeeze freebsd servers, and the puppet clients talk to a lenny
+ bpo puppetmaster.  When 2.6.0 migrated to squeeze, we started to get
empty files on the clients.  The clients knew that the checksum was
non-empty, but never pulled the data down, eg:

notice: //Nagios::Client/File[/etc/nagios/nrpe.d/nrpe_dsa.cfg]/content: content changed '{md5}d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' to '{md5}a5043ad9ae1e3173348704fffb001613'

(d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e is the md5sum of the empty string, and
a5043ad9ae1e3173348704fffb001613 is the correct md5sum of the file.
However, the file would still be 0 byte at the end of the puppet run.

Downgrading to the version below produces correct behavior.

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.112            add and remove users and groups
ii  facter                  1.5.7-1          a library for retrieving facts fro
pn  libopenssl-ruby         <none>           (no description available)
ii  libruby [libxmlrpc-ruby 4.5              Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8       1.4.1-8          Interface of shadow password for R
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  puppet-common           0.25.4-2~bpo50+1 common files for puppet and puppet
ii  ruby1.8                 1.8.7.299-2      Interpreter of object-oriented scr

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  libaugeas-ruby1.8             0.3.0-1.1  Augeas bindings for the Ruby langu
ii  ruby [rdoc]                   4.5        An interpreter of object-oriented 

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  puppet-el                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  vim-puppet                    <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/puppet changed:
START=no
exit 0
DAEMON_OPTS="-w 5 --factsync"


-- no debconf information