[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#740253: puppet: Creates spurious "~" directory in root directory when rpm is installed

[Roland Mas]

Package: puppet
Version: 3.4.3-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

Each time I do a Puppet run on a system where rpm is installed, I end up
with a "/~" directory containing an .rpmdb directory and several files
underneath.  I doubt this is intended (and I'm pretty sure it goes
against FHS).  strace tells me that the process creating that is "rpm
-ql rpm", invoked from Puppet.  However, invoking that command by hand
does not create the directory.  I surmise that Puppet's way of calling
it (possibly after cleaning the environment or some such) is at fault
here.

  Thanks,

Roland.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.13-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers           1.18
ii  puppet-common                 3.4.3-1
ii  ruby                          1:1.9.3.4
ii  ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter]  1.9.3.484-2

puppet recommends no packages.

Versions of packages puppet suggests:
pn  etckeeper   <none>
ii  puppet-el   3.4.3-1
pn  vim-puppet  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
Roland Mas

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