Issue #4938 has been reported by Nigel Kersten.
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Feature #4938: Deprecate confusing symlink specification in 'ensure' for File
resources
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4938
Author: Nigel Kersten
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I generally think we've overloaded 'ensure' too much, and in the case of the
File resource, it's confusing.
Which of these do you think reads better? The latter works now, but only
because anything not "file" or "directory" or "absent" or "present" falls down
to a symlink.
<pre>
file { "/tmp/foo":
ensure => "/tmp/bar",
}
file { "/tmp/foo":
ensure => symlink,
target => "/tmp/bar",
}
</pre>
I propose we deprecate the current usage of ensure to overload symlinks, and
make "symlink" a special word, just like "file" and "directory".
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