Issue #12418 has been updated by Randall Hansen.
If we can get a sanity check that no (or very few) people depend on this, I agree we should drop it. It's hard to see a use case. I'll ask PS; Daniel, will you ask puppet-users? ---------------------------------------- Bug #12418: links => follow can't replace existing symlinks in the destination directory https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12418#change-54416 Author: Nick Fagerlund Status: Needs Decision Priority: Normal Assignee: Randall Hansen Category: file Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: 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. -- 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.
