Jira (PUP-1892) PR (2420) Puppet remote fileserver facility for file resources.

[Joshua Cooper (JIRA)]

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Joshua Cooper commented on an issue   Re: PR (2420) Puppet remote fileserver facility for file resources. On agent, created an entry in /etc/hosts for fileserver.solar.lan that happens to point to the same puppetmaster IP. 172.16.138.51 puppetmaster puppetmaster.solar.lan fileserver.solar.lan On master, created a manifest to source file from a module. file { '/tmp/newfile': ensure => file, source => 'puppet://fileserver.solar.lan/modules/stdlib/newfile.txt', } On master, installed stdlib and added a file to it: # puppet module install puppetlabs/stdlib # mkdir /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/files # ls > /etc/puppet/modules/stdlib/files/newfile.txt Added some debugging to puppet to show which requests are being made, ran the agent, and it is correctly using the fileserver for both file_metadata and file_content requests: $ bundle exec puppet agent -td | grep 'newfile.txt' Debug: connecting to https://fileserver.solar.lan:8140/production/file_metadata/modules/stdlib/newfile.txt?links=manage&source_permissions=use Debug: connecting to https://fileserver.solar.lan:8140/production/file_content/modules/stdlib/newfile.txt Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1892 PR (2420) Puppet remote fileserver facility for file resources. As of current release, due to the use of source_or_content.full_path, the hostname is stripped from attempts to handle file_content calls in type/file.rb. Because of this, it correctly calls file_metadata from the proper server, but then calls the puppetmaster instead of the remote fileserver for content retrieval, which fails. This resolution might st... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.