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We have found that the auto import feature of puppet 2.7.3 does not properly import classes when the file name contains mixed case. However this problem did not exist on puppet 2.6.9/2.6.x.

Note: The class name was not changed between tests class d0::mount_RunII_home {

Before File Name Change:

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debug: importing '/puppet_path/zones/d0/manifests/init.pp' in environment production
Could not find class d0::mount_RunII_home for hostname1 at /puppet_path/manifests/nodes.d/hostname1.pp:2 on node hostname1
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After File Name Change:

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debug: importing '/puppet_path/d0/manifests/mount_runii_home.pp' in environment production
debug: Automatically imported d0::mount_runii_home from d0/mount_runii_home into production
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From what I’m able to observe it appears the class name is being lcased. So the auto import logic is looking file a file name that matches mount_runii_home rather than mount_RunII_home.

I was able to find this documented on the website ( http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/faq.html )

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Class names can contain lowercase letters, numbers, and underscores, and should begin with a lowercase letter. “::” can be used as a namespace separator.
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Is this a new policy or something that is now being enforced before?