Issue #12418 has been reported by Nick Fagerlund.
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Bug #12418: links => follow can't replace existing symlinks in the destination
directory
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12418
Author: Nick Fagerlund
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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When serving a directory recursively, setting the `links` attribute to `follow`
is supposed to dereference symlinks in the source and serve their targets to
the destination as normal files. However, it can't replace existing symlinks in
the destination directory, so it's not idempotent.
Assume that `$modulepath/fistfuloflinks/files/links` is a directory containing
directories that contain symlinks.
### Step 1
Apply the following resource:
file {'/tmp/fistfuloflinks':
ensure => directory,
source => "puppet:///modules/fistfuloflinks/links",
recurse => true,
links => follow,
force => true,
}
As expected, the directories it creates contain normal files.
### Step 2:
Change the value of "links" to "manage," then apply the modified resource. As
expected, the directories now mimic the source directories -- instead of normal
files, they have symlinks.
### Step 3:
Change "links" back to "follow" and apply again. Whoops: they stay symlinks
instead of turning back to normal files. You can only get back to the results
of step 1 if you delete the files out of band before applying the resource.
Tested in puppet 2.7.6. Of course, it only now occurs to me that probably no
one is actually using this feature, since putting symlinks inside a module is
kind of brittle and deranged.
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