On 4 Jan 2012, at 16:31, Brice Figureau wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 11:51 +0000, John Hawkes-Reed wrote:
>> Hello.
>> 
>> In testing a potential upgrade from 2.6.7 -> 2.7.9 I ran across the 
>> following 'interesting' behaviour:
>> 
>> The relevant section of manifest (postfixconf::generic) looks like this:
>> 
>> file { "/etc/aliases":
>>              mode  => 444,
>>                source => [ 
>> "puppet:///modules/postfixconf/$hostname-aliases","puppet:///modules/postfixconf/aliases"
>>  ],
> 
> change the first string to:
> "puppet:///modules/postfixconf/${hostname}-aliases"
> 
>>                owner => root,
>>                group => root,
>>              ensure => file,
>>                before  => Exec["newaliases"],
>>      }
>> 
>> ... And the result of a 'puppet agent --test --debug --noop ... is this:
>> 
>> notice: /Stage[main]/Postfixconf::Generic/File[/etc/aliases]/ensure: 
>> current_value absent, should be directory (noop)
>> info: /Stage[main]/Postfixconf::Generic/File[/etc/aliases]: Scheduling 
>> refresh of Exec[newaliases]
>> notice: /Stage[main]/Postfixconf::Generic/Exec[newaliases]: Would have 
>> triggered 'refresh' from 1 events
> 
> The problem is that in 2.7.x '-' is a valid character in variable names.
> So your "postfixconf/$hostname-aliases" string was interpolated to
> "postfixconf/" which is a directory.
> 
> This is tracked in bugs:
> https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10146
> https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5268

[FX: Facepalm]

Thank you. Apologies for the noise.


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