Puppet users - Nov 2007 - Possible bug in the fileserver: Does not follow symlinks

Hi gang:

I am writing a function to manually install a package from the
fileserver, without using the native package management system (in this
case, yum). This is useful when we, for whatever reason, don''t wish to
install the latest package from yum using the built-in support for
installing packages.

In the process, I''ve found what appears to be a bug.

If a file does not exist, we get an error in the log:
notice: mount[dist]: File source FOO does not exist

If a file DOES exist, it tries to send it, and we get a message in the
log:
info: mount[dist]: Sending FOO to CLIENTNAME

However, if the file exists, but IS A SYMLINK TO ANOTHER FILE (and yes,
I''ve double checked that it''s a valid symlink), we get NEITHER
message... and the file is not sent to the client.

I''ve searched through trac, and nobody seems to have reported this bug
before. Is this a known issue? Should I file a bug?

--JLB


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On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Blank, Jessica wrote:
> Hi gang:
>
> I am writing a function to manually install a package from the  
> fileserver, without using the native package management system (in  
> this case, yum). This is useful when we, for whatever reason,
don''t
> wish to install the latest package from yum using the built-in  
> support for installing packages.
>
> In the process, I''ve found what appears to be a bug.
>
> If a file does not exist, we get an error in the log:
> notice: mount[dist]: File source FOO does not exist
>
> If a file DOES exist, it tries to send it, and we get a message in  
> the log:
> info: mount[dist]: Sending FOO to CLIENTNAME
>
> However, if the file exists, but IS A SYMLINK TO ANOTHER FILE (and  
> yes, I''ve double checked that it''s a valid symlink), we
get NEITHER
> message… and the file is not sent to the client.
>
> I''ve searched through trac, and nobody seems to have reported this
> bug before. Is this a known issue? Should I file a bug?
I thought this was already filed, but it''s known.  You should be able  
to use links => follow in the file copy statement.

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