I'm having trouble framing a response, in part because I think the question is posed at the wrong level.
Specifically, rather than talking about the "symbols" that are being written to state.yaml we should be asking about the conditions that they signify. The question as posed sounds as if it's about a data format issue (that symbols are being written, perhaps as opposed to strings) or a data accuracy issue (that state.yaml was recording "incorrect" information) whereas it looks to me as if the real problem is that information was being tracked (generally accurately and correctly formatted) when it should not have been. I say generally, because the case of the owner being logged as absent when the content was wrong seem clearly incorrect. Before we can explore "fixing these in code" I think we need to clarify what exactly is wrong. If it's just additional entries in state.yaml the question will be how to distinguish a file that was correctly reported as absent from one which was incorrectly reported as absent. If it's a matter of entries that were factually (and not just contextually) wrong... -- M ----------------------------------------------------------- When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- 1920's parody of the maritime general prudential rule ------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
