Issue #14531 has been updated by Stefan Schulte.
I guess the intended behaviour is that puppet will only check the correct link
target if the link does already exist (because you omitted the ensure
property). To make sure that a certain link exists *and* does point to a
certain target you have to write
<pre>
file { '/mnt/tmp/test':
ensure => link,
target => '/mnt/tmp/x',
}
</pre>
see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/style_guide.html#symbolic-links
As it turns out puppet *really* freaks out when specifying `target` without
`ensure` because it may silently remove stuff when I expect puppet to do nothing
<pre>
# ls -ld /lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 21. Sep 2011 /lib -> lib64
# puppet apply -ve 'file { "/lib": target => "lib64"}'
notice: /Stage[main]//File[/lib]/ensure: ensure changed 'link' to 'symlink'
# ls -ld /lib
ls: cannot access /lib: No such file or directory
</pre>
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Bug #14531: Puppet doesn't create symlinks when just using 'target =>
/path/to/file'
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/14531#change-63348
Author: Jos Boumans
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.16
Keywords:
Branch:
Consider the following code:
$ ls -al /mnt/tmp/{x,test}
ls: cannot access /mnt/tmp/test: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 jib users 3 May 4 23:35 /mnt/tmp/x
$ cat z.pp
file { '/mnt/tmp/test':
target => '/mnt/tmp/x',
}
$ sudo puppet apply z.pp
notice: /Stage[main]//File[/mnt/tmp/test]/ensure: created
notice: Finished catalog run in 3.56 seconds
$ ls -al /mnt/tmp/{x,test}
ls: cannot access /mnt/tmp/test: No such file or directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 jib users 3 May 4 23:35 /mnt/tmp/x
Changing 'target' to 'ensure' works around the issue.
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