Issue #4932 has been updated by Steve Feehan.

One additional note: this does appear to be a regression from (at least) 
0.25.4. The
manifest above produces the expected result:

<pre>
$ puppet --version
0.25.4
$ puppet recurse.pp
notice: //File[/tmp/dst]/ensure: created
notice: /File[/tmp/dst/dir]/ensure: created
notice: /File[/tmp/dst/link]/ensure: created
$ find /tmp/dst -ls
4390942    4 drwxr-xr-x   3 xxxxxxx  xxxxxxxx     4096 Oct  4 15:23 /tmp/dst
4390944    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 xxxxxxx  xxxxxxxx        3 Oct  4 15:23 
/tmp/dst/link -> dir
4390943    4 drwxr-xr-x   2 xxxxxxx  xxxxxxxx     4096 Oct  4 15:23 /tmp/dst/dir
$
</pre>

Thanks,
Steve
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Bug #4932: file resource links => manage confusion
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4932

Author: Steve Feehan
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
Affected version: 2.6.1
Keywords: 
Branch: 


I'm not sure if this is a bug. My reading of the documentation leaves room
for a bit of confusion.

This example:

<pre>
$ mkdir /tmp/src
$ mkdir /tmp/src/dir
$ ln -sf dir /tmp/src/link
</pre>

<pre>
file { "/tmp/dst":
  source => "file:///tmp/src",
  links   => manage,
  recurse => remote,
  force   => true,
}
</pre>

Produces the following error:

<pre>
$ puppet recurse.pp
notice: /Stage[main]//File[/tmp/dst]/ensure: created
notice: /File[/tmp/dst/dir]/ensure: created
err: /File[/tmp/dst/link]: Could not evaluate: Got nil value for content
$ 
</pre>

The documentation says:

<pre>
You cannot currently copy links using this mechanism; set links to follow if 
any remote sources are links.
</pre>

But I'm not sure to what "mechanism" applies? If it applies to remote sources, 
then I'm not
sure I understand the utility of "links => manage"? Does this mean you can't 
"manage" links
for any copy? Only for non-copy file management?

If this is not a bug and my understanding of the documentation is correct, then
I think the ticket should be a feature request.



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