Issue #5981 has been updated by Charlie Sharpsteen. Assignee set to Charlie Sharpsteen
---------------------------------------- Bug #5981: Puppet shouldn't overwrite symlinks when specifying content and follow is on. https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5981#change-87328 * Author: Nigel Kersten * Status: Accepted * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Charlie Sharpsteen * Category: file * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: 2.7.9 * Keywords: * Branch: ---------------------------------------- Illustration of the issue: <pre> kripke:~ nbk$ echo "target" > /tmp/target kripke:~ nbk$ ln -s /tmp/target /tmp/symlink kripke:~ nbk$ ls -l /tmp/target /tmp/symlink lrwxr-xr-x 1 nbk wheel 11 Jan 23 14:43 /tmp/symlink -> /tmp/target -rw-r--r-- 1 nbk wheel 7 Jan 23 14:43 /tmp/target </pre> <pre> kripke:~ nbk$ puppet --version 2.6.4 kripke:~ nbk$ cat /tmp/test.pp file { "/tmp/symlink": ensure => present, backup => false, links => follow, content => "content", } kripke:~ nbk$ puppet apply -v /tmp/test.pp info: Applying configuration version '1295823089' notice: /Stage[main]//File[/tmp/symlink]/content: content changed '{md5}80fb1dd0b20823f1d83e10d25840e2e4' to '{md5}9a0364b9e99bb480dd25e1f0284c8555' kripke:~ nbk$ ls -la /tmp/target /tmp/symlink -rw-r--r-- 1 nbk wheel 7 Jan 23 14:51 /tmp/symlink -rw-r--r-- 1 nbk wheel 7 Jan 23 14:47 /tmp/target </pre> So even though we're not managing the symlink, and we've only got ensure set to "present", and we have links set to follow, Puppet overwrites the symlink with the contents, rather than the target. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
