Puppet

06/04/2010

10:19 pm Bug #3944 (Rejected): Can't set a host type to $ipaddress

Actually, I think I was just being confused by #3942 and that there is no bug here. seph seph

10:02 pm Bug #3944 (Rejected): Can't set a host type to $ipaddress

I'm not really sure what to make of this. I have the following stanza:
notice("ip is $ipaddress")
host{ "... seph seph

10:01 pm Feature #3943 (Duplicate): Enable extended CSR attributes to be passed to the puppet client

When the client generates a CSR for itself it would be useful to be able to pass to the client extended attributes to... Mathias Gug

09:48 pm Bug #3799: Reporting failed: "could not intern from yaml" if output ends in colon

Any progress/updates on this one? Thanks! Alan Harder

09:45 pm Bug #3942 (Accepted): inadequate error messages for malformed host types

When puppet encounters a malformed host type, say because the variable for the ip address is unassigned, it produces ... seph seph

07:57 pm Bug #3651 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): puppetdoc can not handle resource defaults

ready for testing in http://github.com/MarkusQ/puppet/tree/ticket/0.25.x/3651 Jesse Wolfe

06:37 pm Bug #3939 (Closed): ALLCAPS variables arent usable in templates.

Puppet lets you set all caps variables in the manifest that you couldnt use in a template:... R.I. Pienaar

06/03/2010

04:41 pm Bug #2532 (Investigating): ca_server/ca_port config settings overrides server/masterport config s...

I'm not sure what the correct status should really be, but it's not needs more information.
I'm unaccepting this b... Nigel Kersten

04:40 pm Bug #2740: pkgdmg provider should not be deleting package files

Ben, any chance you've had a look at the patch? Nigel Kersten

04:39 pm Bug #2773: buglet in provider/service/launchd.rb

Eric, you sent a patch to fix this didn't you? Nigel Kersten

04:38 pm Bug #3461 (Rejected): Debian init scripts not packaged in ext along with others

Nigel Kersten

04:37 pm Facter Bug #3710 (Needs Decision): Facter not working on Mac 10.5.6

Huh. I'm even more confused now. The 10.5.1 looks to be the same format as the 10.5.8 output, but the 10.5.6 output d... Nigel Kersten

12:49 pm Bug #2244: pluginsync fails when no source is available

For what it's worth, there is a work around:
In 0.25.4 if any one of your modules simply has an empty "lib" direct... Jeff McCune

10:19 am Feature #2645: Support "-r" option to useradd (create a system user)

We're having issues as well. We're forcing some userids (real persons), but for system users, we just define them in ... Kenny Gryp

10:18 am Bug #3938 (Rejected): cron resource unreliable

Currently we had an accident with cron resource object. One night non-puppet maintained cronjobs (puppet maintained "... Marcin Deranek

09:42 am Bug #3528: puppet generate yaml report file in a different GMT time that it was generated

please could you avoid to delay anymore the resolution of this Bug because of impact on puppet dashboard.. see Bug #3... Jean-Yves LE ROUX

09:27 am Bug #3651: puppetdoc can not handle resource defaults

Looked into this for a bit. From ruby-debug, it looks like ast.doc is an empty string at /Users/jeff/plabs/puppet/li... Jeff McCune

08:49 am Facter Feature #3937 (Duplicate): There should be a 'mounts' fact

I use myself a mount list for monitoring purposes
So here the code I use
mounts.rb... Mario Verbelen

08:21 am Bug #3651: puppetdoc can not handle resource defaults

I'm on site with Jasper right now. I'm going to take a look and hopefully sprint to a solution today. If we can't f... Jeff McCune

07:35 am Bug #3872: ssh_authorized_key intended behaviour?

... Brad Meier

05:21 am Bug #2673: ssh_authorized_keys options is detected as changed when it is not

Just so other people know, this problem exists in 0.25.4 if specifying options with a single string/array element. It... Tim Nicholas

04:58 am Feature #3021: Config vars as facts

That works for me. As long as I can easily see client & server config configuration options as facts, how they are pr... John Warburton

04:01 am Feature #3933 (Needs Decision): Option to make Puppet fail as soon as a resource fails.

I think this is a good idea +1 from me. Luke? James Turnbull

04:00 am Feature #3936 (Accepted): Puppet should start/stop services using invoke-rc.d for debian

Agreed - however #2538 needs to be fixed before this can work from memory. James Turnbull

03:20 am Feature #3936 (Accepted): Puppet should start/stop services using invoke-rc.d for debian

Though puppet uses invoke-rc.d for debian services to determine whether a service is enabled, it starts/stops service... Darin Tay

12:06 am Feature #3933 (Accepted): Option to make Puppet fail as soon as a resource fails.

I think I might have filed this before on the old trac system, but I can't find it.
Basically I'd like the equival... Nigel Kersten

11:54 pm Feature #3932 (Accepted): util/rdoc.rb: please consider to add rdoc option --charset.

Seems reasonable to me - Brice? James Turnbull

11:52 pm Feature #3932 (Closed): util/rdoc.rb: please consider to add rdoc option --charset.

I want to write puppet module document (with UTF-8 characters).
But n puppet/util/rdoc.rb, rdoc options are coded ... Satoru KURASHIKI

10:34 pm Bug #3872 (Needs More Information): ssh_authorized_key intended behaviour?

Can you include the manifest please so I can take a look? Thanks. James Turnbull

10:31 pm Bug #3911 (Accepted): Puppet spins and bloats when it can't find a defined SMF manifest to import

James Turnbull

10:30 pm Bug #3922 (Investigating): Backing up files by md5 and saving them "as user"

James Turnbull

10:30 pm Feature #3900 (Needs Decision): puppetrun host:port

James Turnbull

10:22 pm Bug #3928 (Investigating): Puppetdoc fails unable to find namevar for type1

James Turnbull

10:20 pm Bug #3927 (Closed): naginator bug ref #3755

Closing in favour of Naginator ticket - will move here. James Turnbull

10:19 pm Bug #3755 (Accepted): Incorrect support for valid nagios definitions

James Turnbull

10:17 pm Bug #3930 (Closed): Redmine is annoying when watching bugs.

Nigel - I logged across at Redmine's site - http://www.redmine.org/issues/5639. James Turnbull

09:20 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #2986: Added support for facter facts and node attributes

Let's start with a question, if you have 500 nodes, how do you automatically create a nagios configuration file for t... Bryan McLellan

09:00 pm Feature #3871: Allow for searching in Arrays

would it be insane to make the "in" operator work on strings *and* arrays?... Nigel Kersten

08:15 pm Facter Feature #3367: Path to ssh key should be configurable

It looks like '-T' is only available in 5.x which we don't have everywhere yet (and it will be a while before we do). Mark Plaksin

07:55 pm Bug #3049: Several bits of the language are order dependant

This is a bug in that using the all_tags array (or classes array, for that matter) in a template is definitely not re... Jeff Behl

06:36 pm Facter Feature #3367: Path to ssh key should be configurable

Regardless of the path can you let me know if the sshd command line above gives you the correct locations for hostkey... Paul Nasrat

06:02 pm Bug #3019: Failed to generate resources / Could not retieve file metadata

Hi everyone,
I have probably the same issue - getting about five false emails per day from various puppet hosts (t... S K

05:42 pm Facter Feature #3367: Path to ssh key should be configurable

sshd isn't in root's PATH. Of course, it *could* be in root's PATH but we tend to set it in our normal user .bashrc ... Mark Plaksin

06/02/2010

04:27 pm Bug #3930 (Closed): Redmine is annoying when watching bugs.

(couldn't find a more appropriate bug component)
This is how my workflow works generally:
* see interesting bug... Nigel Kersten

04:25 pm Bug #3528: puppet generate yaml report file in a different GMT time that it was generated

Is the planned fix to change the report file name or the timestamp within the report?
Nigel Kersten

10:06 am Facter Bug #3929 (Closed): Unvalidated swap -l output in facter on AIX 6.1

if swap -l fails (in my case, a normal user can not execute swap -l), facter will fail:
$ facter
/usr/local/stow/... Hector Rivas

12:01 am Bug #3928: Puppetdoc fails unable to find namevar for type1

This is another test data leaking into production issue. James Turnbull

11:52 pm Bug #3928 (Investigating): Puppetdoc fails unable to find namevar for type1

... James Turnbull

10:08 pm Bug #3927 (Closed): naginator bug ref #3755

Incorrect generation in the case of nagios v 3 types. see naginator 3755 Greg Maples

10:01 pm Facter Bug #3926 (Accepted): Rename uniqueid hostid

basing it on hostid is not nearly unique enough especially in a xen environment with duplicated machines and multiple... Greg Maples

07:03 pm Bug #2509: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 502 on SERVER: Proxy Error

Just poking my nose in to confirm this still exists on puppet-0.25.4-1.el4.
Updating my ruby version from 1.8.1-7.el... Andrew Rankin

06:17 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #3428: external node classifer fails with wrong Content-Length format

I've hit the same issue, servers are Centos 5.5 machines (x86_64), clients are a mix of Centos 4.8, 5.4 & 5.5 machine... Andrew Rankin

05:32 pm Feature #3761: allow ability to temporarily disable puppet on a file/directory by a non-privilege...

Fair enough - I'll refile as such. We have already have sudo privileges distributed so adding an additional privileg... Jeff Behl

06/01/2010

04:37 pm Bug #2162: Exit code 0 on failed puppetd execution

Wasn't this fixed in http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1934 ? Nigel Kersten

04:36 pm Feature #3871: Allow for searching in Arrays

hell yes please! Nigel Kersten

04:35 pm Puppet Forge Feature #3789: Tool should install into module path directly rather than make user add module to ...

Is there really such a thing as "the module path" for those of us using environments? We've explicitly not defined a ... Nigel Kersten

02:28 pm Feature #3021: Config vars as facts

Given that the vast vast majority of the time you're only interested in client facts (rather than server ones) inside... Nigel Kersten

11:04 am Bug #3924 (Accepted): Tidy can not trigger resources

Hello all,
got a strange issue - tidy does not notify resources.... Jan Doleschal

05:20 am Bug #3923 (Rejected): Activemq + puppetqd + mysql single ip in hosts table

I have configured puppet-0.25.4 on RHEL5 with storeconfigs using mysql.
I recently setup storeconfigs with queuing... Joshua Baldock

05:12 am Bug #3922 (Duplicate): Backing up files by md5 and saving them "as user"

I manage user, directories, ssh_authorized_key, ... on redhat 4 and 5 boxes with a master and a client with 0.25.5 ve... mélanie Gault

04:30 am Feature #3021: Config vars as facts

Can I hijack this request to expand the scope to all variables set in the config file?
A separate name space of CO... John Warburton

03:47 am Feature #3761 (Rejected): allow ability to temporarily disable puppet on a file/directory by a no...

I agree - I think this is a bad idea for Puppet to directly support. You can support something like it with sudo.
... Luke Kanies

03:45 am Feature #3871 (Accepted): Allow for searching in Arrays

I'm comfortable with this, or some form of it. Luke Kanies

03:44 am Bug #3899: Plussignment not working with templates

AFAIK this should work - templates shouldn't affect it one way or another.
Matt, can you test this and see if it w... Luke Kanies

03:43 am Feature #3848 (Accepted): Puppet should natively support bootstrapping from scratch.

I kind of hate this, but I'd rather move here and get it wrong than keep stymying (yes, that's spelled correctly) pro... Luke Kanies

03:29 am Feature #3921 (Closed): Facts should have the same terminus configurability as catalogs

That is, we should have a 'facts_terminus' and 'facts_cache' setting.
This is getting ugly, and should really be d... Luke Kanies

11:35 pm Puppet Forge Feature #3920 (Needs Decision): Site and tool should support signing or hashing module files

To add some additional security the module tool and site should sign and/or hash module files and produce signatures ... James Turnbull

11:31 pm Puppet Forge Feature #3919 (Rejected): Tool should be able to build modules that ONLY provide types, functions...

Modules can just be types, providers, functions and facts. Forge should allow this and/or document how to upload one. James Turnbull

11:20 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #3918 (Closed): Dashboard should support a notification subsystem

The dashboard should generate notifications for failed runs or failure to check in. Notifications should include rel... James Turnbull

09:27 pm Puppet Forge Feature #3917 (Accepted): Display & Document Plug-ins in Forge Modules

Description authored by Ryan Coleman (Forge Product Owner)
**Goal**
If a Forge module contains custom Puppet pl... Luke Kanies

09:26 pm Puppet Forge Feature #3916 (Duplicate): Site should show documentation for a module's functions

If a module includes any functions, this should be listed in the module's description page. Luke Kanies

05/31/2010

12:22 pm Feature #3871: Allow for searching in Arrays

Brice was already planning on doing this, I believe. That's what he told me just before puppetcamp, anyway. Tim Stoop

10:16 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #3534 (Closed): Dashboard should support ability to set variables as arrays in the ENC

Using the split() function works fine. Stefan Goethals

11:10 pm Puppet Forge Feature #3915 (Rejected): System should provide testing and validation workflow

CPAN has a testing workflow - so upon package submission volunteer testers can provide feedback on test runs:
http... Ken Barber

11:03 pm Puppet Forge Feature #3914 (Investigating): Site should calculate and publish programmatic quality ratings for...

It would be nice to include quality ratings much like The Cheese Shop does:
<http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=s... Ken Barber

05/30/2010

11:09 pm Facter Feature #2270: IPv6 should be supported.

This looks like a duplicate of Feature #3502. William Van Hevelingen

05/29/2010

06:41 am Puppet Forge Feature #3903 (Closed): Site should have analytics

Added in r0.1.6. Igal Koshevoy

05:13 am Feature #3912 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): The client certificate name should be available a...

James Turnbull

04:20 am Feature #3912: The client certificate name should be available as an internal fact

Code sent to -dev list. James Turnbull

04:16 am Feature #3912 (Closed): The client certificate name should be available as an internal fact

The client certificate name should be available as an internal fact James Turnbull

03:28 am Bug #3911 (Needs More Information): Puppet spins and bloats when it can't find a defined SMF mani...

If manifest is set to /conf/foo.xml, and foo.xml does not exist, smf.rb does not throw an error. It keeps trying to r... Bryan Allen

11:14 pm Bug #3910 (Accepted): Server is not authoritative over client environment when specified in an ENC

This is more than the normal counter-intuitive - this has the potential to break things nastily. James Turnbull

10:49 pm Bug #3004 (Code Insufficient): zone resource on Solaris tries to change from 'running to running'...

James Turnbull

10:46 pm Bug #3908 (Accepted): zone.rb doesn't refresh zone.xml if the zone is already built

James Turnbull

10:36 pm Feature #3399: zone type should handle exclusive IP stacks

I presume this is code going into 2.6? James Turnbull

07:20 pm Bug #3910 (Closed): Server is not authoritative over client environment when specified in an ENC

See: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev/browse_thread/thread/b609965e377392ec
To summarize, when the client... Nigel Kersten

05/28/2010

04:12 pm Facter Bug #3909 (Closed): Strip trailing dots from domain fact

On behalf of a puppet-users posted who did not want to create an additional login to file a bug:
I was stumbling o... Joe McDonagh

02:38 pm Bug #3908 (Needs More Information): zone.rb doesn't refresh zone.xml if the zone is already built

If I build a zone, and then later add a delegated dataset, or another interface/IP, I'd rather not have to update bot... Bryan Allen

01:56 pm Facter Bug #3898 (Accepted): fqdn fact requires reverse PTR matches the forward

Paul Nasrat

12:08 pm Bug #2162: Exit code 0 on failed puppetd execution

Hmmm I think is reasonably important to fix - a lot of people rely on exit codes - Jesse is this invalidated by chang... James Turnbull

12:04 pm Bug #2162: Exit code 0 on failed puppetd execution

Hi,
Is there any plan to fix this issue ?
I am using 0.25.4 and I see that this bug was opened one year ago...
... Aurélien Cedeyn

11:39 am Bug #3836 (Accepted): External nodes should only capture stdout

James Turnbull

11:35 am Bug #3904 (Accepted): Received annoying alert mails and reports after set "checksum => none" on F...

James Turnbull

11:34 am Bug #3899 (Investigating): Plussignment not working with templates

Hmmm I don't think this will work with a function but if so it should be throwing an error. James Turnbull

11:25 am Feature #3871 (Needs Decision): Allow for searching in Arrays

James Turnbull

11:24 am Bug #3850 (Accepted): newaliases generates incorrect aliases file on openbsd

James Turnbull

11:24 am Feature #3848 (Needs Decision): Puppet should natively support bootstrapping from scratch.

+1 from me. James Turnbull

09:19 am Bug #3907 (Closed): Hashes can't be empty

The following code fails:... Luke Kanies

07:20 am Bug #3906 (Closed): uninitialized constant Puppet::Rails when using storeconfigs

While setting up stored configs, I found that whenever I set storeconfigs = true I got the following message when run... Michael Knox

07:15 am Puppet Forge Bug #3905 (Closed): Tool's README should be nicely formatted, even for bulletted instructions

There's a flaw in the README that's misformatting text in bullets, e.g.:
2. From a locally-built gem: Checkout... Igal Koshevoy

06:32 am Bug #3904 (Closed): Received annoying alert mails and reports after set "checksum => none" on Fil...

The fix on Bug #2929 did greatly improve the performance when doing client side file permission and mode check, but i... Yimin Li

06:29 am Puppet Forge Bug #3588 (Rejected): Sign up message needs editing

Michael: Sorry, I'm giving up on this ticket. I've tried a number of times but can't figure out how you managed to ge... Igal Koshevoy

03:11 am Puppet Forge Feature #3897: Site should make it easy to find the puppet-module tool

I would recommend somewhere on the right hand side:
maybe between "register" and "search modules" Dan Bode

02:55 am Puppet Forge Feature #3903 (Closed): Site should have analytics

Igal Koshevoy

02:35 am Puppet Forge Feature #3870 (Closed): Tool should be published as a gem to gemcutter.org

Closing. James published r0.3.0 to gemcutter. Igal Koshevoy

02:33 am Puppet Forge Feature #3897 (Accepted): Site should make it easy to find the puppet-module tool

Dan: Thanks for the feedback. Yes, we'd like to make it easy to find the tool. Do you have any suggestions on words t... Igal Koshevoy

02:29 am Puppet Forge Feature #3896 (Accepted): Site homepage should show most recent/popular modules

Igal Koshevoy

02:28 am Puppet Forge Bug #3887: Site should use the special fonts, like those on the main site

Michael: Thanks. Re: "priority", I wasn't sure how concerned you folks were about branding consistency. :) Igal Koshevoy

02:26 am Puppet Forge Feature #3895 (Accepted): Site should allow user to sort listing of modules in different ways

Michael: Agreed, thanks for the suggestion.
Useful sorts include:
* by module name, e.g. "apache" [default?]
* b... Igal Koshevoy

02:21 am Puppet Forge Feature #3892 (Needs Decision): Site should support Open ID authentication

Paul: Thank you for the honest feedback. I've gotten some more like this elsewhere too.
Michael (Product Manager):... Igal Koshevoy