Issue #11988 has been updated by Jeff McCune.
# Update on save_mode # Unfortunately the needs_to_run method currently has the behavior of producing a `*.augnew` file for each file being managed by Augeas. This side effect is relied upon by the `sync` method of the `returns` property in the augeas type. In order to implement the strategy Dominic proposed of using the SAVE_BACKUP augeas mode I believe we need to significantly refactor the augeas provider to avoid this side effect and instead implement a more direct method of implementing the type's `retrieve` and `sync` methods. ---------------------------------------- Bug #11988: Augeas provider can clobber symlinks https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11988 Author: Nathan Huff Status: Accepted Priority: Normal Assignee: Dominic Cleal Category: augeas Target version: 2.7.x 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.
