Jira (PUP-2788) Puppet package source check fails with DFS share

[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

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Josh Cooper commented on an issue   Re: Puppet package source check fails with DFS share Kurt Gardiner Thanks for your detailed report. The msi packages work, because puppet just calls msiexec passing along the source parameter, and windows is able to resolve the DFS share. The exe case works in 3.2.3, but fails in 3.6.1, because our file system abstraction layer behaves differently as you pointed out: irb(main):004:0> Puppet::FileSystem::exist?('//dfs_share/software/jdk6/jdk-6u45-windows-x64.exe') => false irb(main):005:0> File.exist?('//dfs_share/software/jdk6/jdk-6u45-windows-x64.exe') => true And we changed the windows package provider to call it in the commit you specified. It does appear that ruby's File.exists? follows symlinks on non-windows platforms, but on Windows it just gets attributes of the link, not the target: if (GetFileAttributesExW(path, GetFileExInfoStandard, (void*)&wfa)) { Kurt Gardiner could you dig into the Puppet::Util::Windows::File.readlink method. When it calls resolve_symlink, can you dump the resulting REPARSE_DATA_BUFFER structure? Since it's binary data, you'll need to encode it or dump to a file. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-2788 Puppet package source check fails with DFS share {noformat} package { 'NetFx452':        ensure => installed,        source => '//dfs_share/software/dotNetFx452_Full_x86_x64.exe',        install_options => ['/q'],     } {noformat} fails with error {noformat} Error: The source does not exist: '//dfs_share/software/dotNetFx452_Full_x86_x64.exe' {noformat} Digging through th... 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.