[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#594575: Puppet standalone broken

[Jörg Herzinger]

Package: puppet
Version: 2.6.0-2
Severity: normal

Puppet standalone is broken 2.6 release. Reproducable: always. Any files create via source files can not be created by puppet. For example if your try something like:

file {
	"/root/blablubb":
	source => "puppet:///modules/blablubb/mysource.txt",
}

Puppet apply will fail. This is already reported in various bug reports of the puppet project and it is claimed to be fixed in 2.6.1.
With puppet apply not working half of the functunality of this package is broken in my eyes. Many people rely on this feature for debootsrapping the whole setup. Setting up a virtual machine host manually is not funny if you know you do have the appropriate recipie but puppet is broken and you cant use it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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                2.6.0-2     Centralized configuration manageme
ii  ruby1.8                      1.8.7.302-1 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  libselinux-ruby1.8            <none>     (no description available)
ii  puppet-el                     2.6.0-2    syntax highlighting for puppet man
pn  vim-puppet                    <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/puppet changed [not included]

-- no debconf information