Issue #3170 has been updated by John Bollinger.
According to the description of this issue on puppet-users,
>Every puppetd run gives me something like:
>
>notice: //kbp_debian/File[/tmp]/checksum: checksum changed '{mtime}Mon
>Feb 08 22:50:00 +0100 2010' to '{mtime}Tue Feb 09 21:11:06 +0100 2010'
I think that's saying Puppet is using its mtime method for "checksumming".
That's fine in itself, but I don't think Puppet actually handles mtime
checksums correctly. If I explicitly set a file's checksum to 'mtime', I get
the same behavior: the file is updated on every run, even though its content is
unchanged (CentOS 5, Puppet 0.24.8). At each iteration, the mtimes it compares
appear to be the times of the previous and current Puppet runs.
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Feature #3170: Please re-introduce checksum => nosum for file resources
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/3170
Author: Tim Stoop
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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Category:
Target version:
Affected version: 0.25.4
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According to #558, there used to be a 'nosum' option for the file resource. We
have a lot of resource defined like this:
{{{
file { "/tmp":
mode => 1777,
}
}}}
Currently, for each of these resources it calculates the checksum every puppet
run. It would be convenient for us if it only checks the directory mode or
other specifically set options, but not the checksum. Saves a lot of time and
output we don't need. I think more people would find this convenient.
Also, currently the documentation seems to hint that it's possible to disable
checksumming (it uses the phrase "The default checksum parameter, if checksums
are enabled, is md5.").
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