Issue #11988 has been updated by Peter Meier.
In my experience this can hit you quite badly, as RHEL (and its derivates) for example have a symlink for grub.conf. While it worked imho earlier, it doesn't work anymore nowadays and your manifests will constantly update the wrong config file, also other tools that relay on /etc/grub.conf being a symlink will start to fail. ---------------------------------------- Bug #11988: Augeas provider can clobber symlinks https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11988 Author: Nathan Huff Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: augeas Target version: Affected Puppet version: 2.7.9 Keywords: augeas Branch: If the augeas resource is fed a symlink as the target file and it makes changes it will overwrite it with a regular file. It creates and .augnew file and just blindly moves it into place without checking if the target file was a symlink. The provider should either check whether the target was a symlink and dereference it or it should rerun augeas in overwrite mode since augeas does take care to dereference if necessary. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
