[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#516043: links fails to be managed by file with recurse => inf

[Jayen Ashar]

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Micah Anderson <micah at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> * Jayen Ashar <jayen at science.unsw.edu.au> [2012-09-29 20:18-0400]:
>> Package: puppet
>> Version: 0.24.7-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> from my pp file:
>>     file {
>>         "/etc/cups":
>>             source => "puppet:///files/staff/etc/cups",
>>             recurse => inf;
>>     }
>>
>> from puppet:///files/staff/etc/cups/ppd:
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 lp   lp   146989 2009-02-19 10:05 km-c451.clr.ppd
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 lp   lp   146989 2009-02-19 10:12 km-c451.bw.ppd
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 2009-02-19 10:13 prtom.clr.ppd -> km-c451.clr.ppd
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 2009-02-19 10:13 prtom.ppd -> km-c451.bw.ppd
>>
>> on the puppet client, in /etc/cups/ppd:
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 2008-12-05 22:06 prtom.ppd -> lex-c762.bw.ppd
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     15 2009-02-19 09:52 prtom.clr.ppd -> km-c451.clr.ppd
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 lp   lp   146989 2009-02-19 10:05 km-c451.clr.ppd
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 lp   lp   146989 2009-02-19 10:14 km-c451.bw.ppd
>>
>> it appears to ignore the update to prtom.ppd.
>
> I'm sorry that there has been no resolution for this bug. It was tagged
> upstream some time ago, but that upstream tag didn't include a specific URL to
> the upstream bug.
>
> However, you reported this issue when you were running 0.24 and I know that
> there were many symlink related bugs that were fixed since then.
>
> Is it possible for you to test this to see if it occurs in a newer version of
> puppet and report back to the bug your results (and let me know what version
> you tried)?
>
> Thanks,
> micah
>

I've stopped using puppet, so I won't be trying a newer version of
puppet.  Feel free to close this bug.

--Jayen