Jira (PUP-1208) md5lite, mtime not honoured for file type/provider

[Dustin J. Mitchell (JIRA)]

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Dustin J. Mitchell commented on an issue   Re: md5lite, mtime not honoured for file type/provider I'm specifically interested in mtime. I have a bunch of large files (compressed disk images) that almost never change, and would certainly change size on update. They are on a lot of hosts. So as it stands I'm running 'md5' on both the master and the agent on every puppet run on each of these hosts, which noticeably slows things down. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1208 md5lite, mtime not honoured for file type/provider It seems I can't get the puppetmaster to honour the checksum => mtime setting, or the md5lite setting. So the following example has no performance improvement over just using md5: {code} file { "/testtransfer":   ensure => directory,   recurse => remote,   purge => true,   checksum => mtime,   source => "puppet:///modules/${module_name}/bigfilesh... 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.