Puppet

01/12/2011

11:37 pm Bug #5392 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Misleading error message when trying to collect resou...

Matt Robinson

09:47 pm Feature #914: A logging harness needs to be added to the Indirector

excellent. thanks. Nigel Kersten

09:43 pm Bug #5823: Run mode can't be set by third party scripts or based on command-line arguments

As discussed in person, my patch above just resets those whenever the run_mode is changed.
My new method could be ... Luke Kanies

09:43 pm Feature #914 (Accepted): A logging harness needs to be added to the Indirector

I think it is still relevant, but obviously not urgent.
Basically, if you are trying to figure out why you can't f... Luke Kanies

08:05 pm Feature #5795: There should be a Node Terminus that uses a local YAML file like an External Node ...

Added configuration option with default: https://github.com/brothers/puppet/commit/5824a36fbc45d325eb41f07c00269bf0a4... Jared Brothers

08:01 pm Bug #5850 (Closed): XMLRPC interface to filebucket should be removed

The file lib/puppet/network/handler/filebucket.rb services XMLRPC requests for file bucket actions. This functionali... Paul Berry

07:00 pm Feature #5783: support HTTP(S) URL as the file 'source'

eric sorenson wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>
> > This would be good to support; obviously the metadata for the ... Daniel Pittman

06:32 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #5845 (Closed): Host in UI should be replaced with node

All over our interface we use the word host when we should really be saying node. First, it's not always the host, i... Matt Robinson

01/11/2011

03:55 pm Bug #5823: Run mode can't be set by third party scripts or based on command-line arguments

Because of the way we model default settings, if you change run_mode after defaults.rb has been processed, all of the... Jesse Wolfe

02:07 pm Bug #5428: Catalog compile fails with to_hash error due to YAML object recovery in storeconfigs b...

any progress on this? any more debug info that i can provide? patches that i could test? konrad rzentarzewski

02:06 pm Bug #5755: Unable to load puppet generated catalog via YAML.load_file

any progress on this? any more debug info that i can provide? patches that i could test? konrad rzentarzewski

08:17 am Feature #86: Directory creation fails if parent directory does not exist

Hi Nigel,
it will not be possible to satisfy everyone here, so I will continue as it is designed right now
For me... Mario Verbelen

08:07 am Bug #5843 (Accepted): The 'file' type still uses self.class[] in self.class.instances

This code path is used when trying to retrieve files via the indirector in the Resource class. Here's the stack trac... Luke Kanies

08:01 am Bug #5842 (Rejected): The 'active_record' terminus does not load Rails

Apparently its normal usage loads Rails for you, but not if you just try to load it directly:... Luke Kanies

08:00 am Bug #5841 (Closed): The 'couch' terminus can't be loaded into memory without the 'couch' gem

Our typical behavior here is to fail only if the terminus is attempted to be used, rather than when it's loaded into ... Luke Kanies

07:28 am Bug #5823: Run mode can't be set by third party scripts or based on command-line arguments

And it looks like it doesn't take much to fix this. The following patch to application.rb seems to work:... Luke Kanies

07:21 am Bug #5823: Run mode can't be set by third party scripts or based on command-line arguments

Note that you can create a new application which runs in a given run_mode, but it cannot be changed at, um, run-time:... Luke Kanies

07:18 am Feature #5783: support HTTP(S) URL as the file 'source'

eric sorenson wrote:
> Actually HTTP semantics can largely support the metadata and it would be great if puppet impl... donavan m

07:11 am Bug #5840 (Accepted): Util/command_line treats options as applications

Given this command line with a custom application:... Luke Kanies

06:28 am Bug #4142: puppet fails when metadata.json exists in module

That update works for me. Joe Julian

05:55 am Bug #3692: reevaluate config_version whenever an agent checks in.

Just to note this is biting me pretty hard now
Reading the [Release Notes](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects... John Warburton

04:00 am Feature #1035 (Investigating): "all" in tagmail.conf should allow exclusions

Does anyone still care about this? Nigel Kersten

03:59 am Feature #1029 (Closed): Arrays are not supported in selectors

Closed rather than rejected because we're unlikely to do it, but not against the idea. Nigel Kersten

03:57 am Feature #986 (Rejected): LDAP Entries and Attributes as a native or plugin type

This is quite difficult, and it's very unlikely we'll actually get around to doing it. Nigel Kersten

03:57 am Feature #972 (Closed): More useful information (error handling) from Exec via system()

In light of no obvious solution, closing. Happy to reopen if we can find one. Nigel Kersten

03:56 am Feature #970 (Closed): Configuration options should be available across configuration files

fileserver.conf isn't particularly relevant in these times of modules for fileserving. Nigel Kersten

03:55 am Bug #945 (Closed): Ruby does not like unsigned UIDs

Nigel Kersten

03:54 am Bug #943 (Closed): DirectoryServices provider should auto-assign uid and gid when unspecified.

This is done in #4382 actually. It auto-assigns if unspecified. Nigel Kersten

03:53 am Feature #914 (Needs More Information): A logging harness needs to be added to the Indirector

Can you expand on whether this is relevant anymore Luke? Nigel Kersten

03:52 am Feature #913 (Closed): up2date prefetching list of available packages

Closing due to inactivity. Happy to revisit. Nigel Kersten

03:51 am Bug #902 (Duplicate): Qualified-variable names cannot contain hyphens (but class names can)

closing in favor of the duplicate bug that has more recent activity. Nigel Kersten

03:51 am Feature #4350 (Duplicate): Should be able to interpolate variables in classes containing dash/hyphen

Nigel Kersten

03:48 am Feature #871 (Rejected): Cannot append values to type default resource parameters.

Nigel Kersten

03:46 am Bug #821 (Closed): Empty Gecos field problem

Tested, no longer an issue in 2.6.x Nigel Kersten

03:35 am Feature #682: Should be able to override noop when set in a type

We don't have a clear solution here, and we don't have people clamoring for it. Closing, happy to revisit. Nigel Kersten

03:33 am Feature #651: Exec checks should be turned into metaparameters

Roy, I'm really sorry we let this languish so long. Is that code still valid? Nigel Kersten

03:33 am Bug #634 (Closed): Exec checks don't work when binaries aren't in the path

Nigel Kersten

03:32 am Bug #581 (Closed): facter must be installed into rubys libdir or tests fail

Closing this ticket.
With envpuppet and facter / puppet not installed in the system ruby library location, this is... Jeff McCune

03:27 am Bug #198 (Closed): puppet does not have a manpage

Garret, if you want to change the current man page behavior, please open a new ticket. Nigel Kersten

03:27 am Bug #419 (Duplicate): Selectors are still case-sensitive

Closing as a duplicate of the bug where more constructive discussion occurred. Nigel Kersten

03:03 am Feature #91 (Closed): File copying should probably be done by name, not id

Closing due to lack of expressed interest. Happy to revisit. Nigel Kersten

03:03 am Feature #86: Directory creation fails if parent directory does not exist

Any other suggestions other than the method that works now?
I'm tempted to close this to reduce some of our immens... Nigel Kersten

03:01 am Feature #65 (Closed): File sources should support file globbing

Closing due to lack of expressed interest. Happy to revisit. Nigel Kersten

03:01 am Feature #50 (Closed): Enable restore on checksum differences

Closing due to lack of expressed interest. Happy to revisit. Nigel Kersten

03:00 am Feature #48 (Closed): Make filenames support globbing

Closing due to lack of expressed interest. Happy to revisit. Nigel Kersten

02:54 am Bug #5839 (Accepted): puppet filebucket -s doesn't work

`puppet filebucket -s servername`
fails with
`ambiguous option: -s`
Jesse Wolfe

02:03 am Bug #4139: 'autoflush' ... doesn't

Confirming this for puppet 2.6.4 on passenger 2.2.14 on Solaris
Especially annoying is restarting & you lose part ... John Warburton

01:46 am Bug #5820 (Accepted): Undefined variables throw poor error

Even allowing for the use of has_variable, we shouldn't require that users know about our magical :undef symbol.
I... Nigel Kersten

01:13 am Bug #5838 (Closed): File bucket upload should be efficient when file already stored

When using a remote file bucket and storing a file whose contents already exist in the bucket, we waste network bandw... Paul Berry

12:27 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5172 (Merged - Pending Release): Should allow search of file resources by checksum or fi...

Merged to next in commit:a6bb336a998add0476b43d87597324f61f6def5a. Nick Lewis

12:16 am Facter Bug #5816: ipaddress fact uses the IP of the alphabetically earliest interface.

Sure, I have a ticket/1.5.x/5816 branch at git://fedorapeople.org/home/fedora/ricky/public_git/facter.git (gitweb htt... Ricky Zhou

11:28 pm Bug #5834 (Accepted): extlookup with default value of 'false' keyword results in confusing error.

Using the ‘false’ keyword as the default value for an extlookup results in a “No match found” error. Confusing.
Th... Jordan Sissel

10:31 pm Bug #5831 (Code Insufficient): RPM provider should use --whatprovides to work with virtual packages

RPM provides are ignored used in installation, but ignored in verification currently. The RPM provider calls "yum -y ... Adam Gray

10:26 pm Puppet Acceptance Bug #5830 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): tests/acceptance/resource/service/ticket_4123_should_...

Available in 05ca009 Daniel Pittman

10:04 pm Bug #4409: puppetmasterd does not find custom types for environment

> In the short term, we recommend addressing both problems by moving the responsibility for validating resources from... Peter Meier

09:59 pm Puppet Acceptance Bug #5830 (Closed): tests/acceptance/resource/service/ticket_4123_should_list_all_running_redhat ...

tests/acceptance/resource/service/ticket_4123_should_list_all_running_redhat has a syntax error that breaks the test ... Daniel Pittman

09:56 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5829 (Closed): Handle syntax errors more cleanly

The test harness should handle syntax errors (and other exceptions) thrown while evaluating an individual test better... Daniel Pittman

07:35 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5507 (Closed): Document feature map between run_tests.pl et al & systest.rb et al

Daniel Pittman

07:32 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5822: Include git and system ruby in the baseline VM images

Ruby was left out intentionally as installation and Ruby is a PE installer requirement. I think it would be sensible... Dominic Maraglia

07:26 pm Bug #4409: puppetmasterd does not find custom types for environment

Jesse Wolfe and I have spent some time investigating this bug. The key problem is that a master can't reliably disti... Paul Berry

07:23 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5798: Support more than one test directory on systest harness command line

Available in 4a760173 in a_t_harness Daniel Pittman

07:23 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5665: Add a "human focused" output mode to the test harness.

Patch 4de830bd in a_t_harness contributes to this by improving option dumping readability for humans. Daniel Pittman

07:21 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5519: Git based install in harness

Patch available as 19c91993 on a_t_harness Daniel Pittman

07:21 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5644: Add ntpdate step to system test harness

Patch available as 04499ff3 on a_t_harness Daniel Pittman

07:20 pm Puppet Acceptance Bug #5825: puppet_version inference does not work after merge to puppet-acceptance

Patch available as 829deef7 Daniel Pittman

07:17 pm Bug #5826 (Rejected): Test Ticket

Zach Leslie

07:15 pm Bug #5826 (Rejected): Test Ticket

This is a test ticket. Please disregard. Zach Leslie

07:09 pm Puppet Acceptance Bug #5825 (Closed): puppet_version inference does not work after merge to puppet-acceptance

The `puppet_version` method in `preflight_check.rb` does not correctly infer the puppet version being tested when run... Daniel Pittman

07:08 pm Feature #5824 (Needs More Information): Puppet language should have self keyword

With the introduction of the new relationship syntax, I often find myself doing:... Dan Bode

07:03 pm Bug #5823 (Accepted): Run mode can't be set by third party scripts or based on command-line argum...

Nigel Kersten

07:00 pm Bug #5823 (Closed): Run mode can't be set by third party scripts or based on command-line arguments

To get third-party scripts into the right mode we previously set Puppet[:name] to the required mode. This has now bee... James Turnbull

06:59 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5667 (Rejected): Add "cleanup" operation support to the DSL

Daniel Pittman

06:46 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5822 (Closed): Include git and system ruby in the baseline VM images

At the moment the baseline VM images used for testing do not include either git or ruby.
While those are not requi... Daniel Pittman

04:55 pm Feature #4976: force package install

I misinterpreted what you meant by "ignore". If it's tied to a feature that is enforced (no pun intended) then it sou... Nigel Kersten

04:32 pm Bug #5820 (Duplicate): Undefined variables throw poor error

In 0.25.5 and earlier undefined variables were accepted. In 2.6.x and later they throw a poor error:... James Turnbull

04:30 pm Feature #5819 (Closed): There should be an application for displaying type data

In the same way that there is now a way to get type data via REST, there should be a CLI application that can produce... Luke Kanies

01/10/2011

01:09 pm Feature #4976: force package install

I don't see the problem. If it's committed along with https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5036, then puppet will e... Aggelos Economopoulos

12:40 pm Bug #5817 (Closed): Hashes can't be used as function paramaters

The following statement fails with a parse error: `function({ foo => 'bar' })`
Error: `Syntax error at '{'; expect... Kristian Krohn

09:02 am Facter Bug #5816 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): ipaddress fact uses the IP of the alphabetically earl...

Cool, quick scan of patch looks good.
It'd be nice if we could add a unit test to validate the ip addr show parsin... Paul Nasrat

11:51 pm Facter Bug #5816 (Duplicate): ipaddress fact uses the IP of the alphabetically earliest interface.

I have a machine with a dns0 interface, which ifconfig outputs before eth0 (it seems to output them in alphabetical o... Ricky Zhou

09:17 pm Bug #5409 (Rejected): puppet enables service on each run on debian lenny

definately not a puppet bug. Actually puppet is just calling some debian scripts and on the system in question these ... Peter Meier

05:52 pm Bug #5409: puppet enables service on each run on debian lenny

I'm not sure it is a puppet issue. Actually I don't know debian good enough to tell why this happens. I'm currently t... Peter Meier

01/09/2011

02:24 pm Feature #5726: Allow uid range when creating a user

And how should puppet create the user if it's not already there? Because I guess your long term goal is to have consi... Stefan Schulte

01:43 pm Feature #4416: Resources cannot be used on the run where they are synced

I have similar problems since I'm using puppet (2.6.0) and I'm not setting the provider explicitly (I get an error so... Stefan Schulte

01:26 pm Bug #5814 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): cron_spec.rb should work when cron is not installed

Stefan Schulte

01:57 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5387: Version number should indicate pre-release software

James Turnbull wrote:
> Except that anything but x.y.z fails for Gems.... That's the major reason we've had challeng... Krzysztof Wilczynski

12:53 am Puppet Acceptance Feature #5798 (Accepted): Support more than one test directory on systest harness command line

James Turnbull

12:53 am Puppet Acceptance Feature #5793 (Accepted): Extend testing DSL to eliminate "step" statement...

James Turnbull

12:52 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5649 (Needs Decision): Make it easier to observe file changes and restore from backup vi...

James Turnbull

12:51 am Refactor #5746 (Needs Decision): move vim plugin files to their own repo

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5726 (Needs Decision): Allow uid range when creating a user

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5784 (Needs Decision): Support 'audit' on a machine without any 'agent' run...

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5786 (Needs Decision): Develop "archive" (bz2/gz) package provider.

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5783 (Needs Decision): support HTTP(S) URL as the file 'source'

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5779 (Needs Decision): Drop privileges for a manifest/module

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5777 (Needs Decision): it would be nice if auth.conf supported subnets

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5760 (Needs Decision): optional extlookup debugging

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5764 (Needs Decision): POC implementation of a Cisco switch/router type/provider

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5703 (Needs Decision): Print output from postrun_command and prerun_command

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5692 (Needs Decision): Internally-generated state files should be written in an atomic way

James Turnbull

12:51 am Feature #5691 (Needs Decision): Experimental process name based instrumentation

James Turnbull

12:50 am Facter Bug #5699 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Facter does not work properly with zLinux (s390x)

James Turnbull

12:49 am Bug #5814 (Accepted): cron_spec.rb should work when cron is not installed

James Turnbull

12:49 am Bug #5814 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): cron_spec.rb should work when cron is not installed

James Turnbull

01/08/2011

02:02 pm Bug #5814 (Closed): cron_spec.rb should work when cron is not installed

If you don't have cron installed the specs for the cron type will fail. Sample:
1) Puppet::Type::Cron it shoul... Stefan Schulte

12:31 am Bug #1757 (Closed): File mode is printed as decimal instead of octal

Nick Lewis

12:31 am Feature #2866 (Closed): Yum package provider does not allow downgrade

Nick Lewis

12:31 am Bug #3782 (Closed): Test isolation problem in test/ral/providers/cron/crontab.rb

Nick Lewis

12:31 am Bug #4382 (Closed): puppetmasterd --mkusers on OS X is failing

Nick Lewis

12:31 am Bug #4472 (Closed): Autoloading of .pp files doesn't search all namespace nestings

Nick Lewis

12:30 am Bug #4483 (Closed): Already-loaded classes shadow autoloaded classes, violating namespace resolut...

Nick Lewis

12:30 am Bug #4487 (Closed): Environment column in hosts table updating incorrectly

Nick Lewis

12:30 am Bug #4521 (Closed): Error when a conditional contains only classes, definitions, and nodes.

Nick Lewis

12:30 am Bug #4522 (Closed): Classes, defines, and nodes inside conditionals always take effect

Nick Lewis

12:30 am Bug #4638 (Closed): Confusion between arrays and scalars in grammar

Nick Lewis

12:29 am Bug #4657 (Closed): Customer-supplied .rb files are not compatible with multiple environments or ...

Nick Lewis

12:29 am Bug #4685 (Closed): Classes, defines, and nodes allowed inside of non-evaluated conditionals

Nick Lewis

12:28 am Feature #4943 (Closed): New Puppet executable, "inspect" for inspecting resource state and report...

Nick Lewis

12:28 am Bug #5081 (Closed): Syntax checking not working with --ignoreimport

Nick Lewis

12:28 am Feature #5168 (Closed): Should audit/inspect/monitor file ctime

Nick Lewis

12:27 am Feature #5169 (Closed): Should audit/inspect/monitor file mtime

Nick Lewis

12:26 am Bug #5261 (Closed): Need a way to transmit binary data for file contents in manifests

Nick Lewis

12:26 am Bug #5370 (Closed): puppet apply --summarize not working since 2.6

Nick Lewis

12:26 am Feature #5391 (Closed): added additional zfs properties

Nick Lewis

12:26 am Feature #5393 (Closed): include support for adding dataset(s) to solaris zone provider

Nick Lewis

12:26 am Bug #5423 (Closed): home property of the user type is run after the uid property, causing sadness

Nick Lewis

12:25 am Bug #5705 (Closed): In reports, change_count, out_of_sync, and changed are inaccurate

Nick Lewis

12:24 am Bug #5715 (Closed): Report format anomalies

Nick Lewis

12:24 am Bug #5723 (Closed): Some spec tests fail using mocha 0.9.10

Nick Lewis

12:22 am Bug #5758 (Closed): Verify that report events are correctly created

Nick Lewis

12:22 am Bug #5759 (Closed): Errors in custom functions cause puppet to hang and consume all CPU

Nick Lewis

12:22 am Bug #5771 (Closed): Upgrade RSpec to version 2

Nick Lewis

12:21 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5725 (Closed): Remove user cruft

Matt Robinson

12:21 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5573 (Closed): Diff doesn't handle new or removed resources

Matt Robinson

12:21 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5543 (Closed): reports:import task needs to work with new create_from_yaml

Matt Robinson

12:20 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5535 (Closed): Rake task to migrate old reports

Matt Robinson

12:20 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5493 (Closed): Add version info to reports and write migration code

Matt Robinson

12:20 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5459 (Closed): Convert the report yaml field to a schema

Matt Robinson

12:20 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5379 (Closed): Mock SETTINGS for testing

Matt Robinson

12:20 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5361 (Closed): Dashboard should have access controls for submitting reports

Matt Robinson

12:20 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5174 (Closed): Should allow audit snapshot comparison to the baseline snapshot

Matt Robinson

12:19 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5142 (Closed): nodes/no_longer_reporting should be able to show all nodes

Matt Robinson

12:19 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5120 (Closed): Add/edit nodes and classes should be disableable

Matt Robinson

12:19 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5117 (Closed): Logo should be able to be changed

Matt Robinson

12:19 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #4623 (Closed): TimelineEvent records should be displayed in the order they happen

Matt Robinson

12:18 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5739 (Closed): Remove unused vendored gems and plugins

Matt Robinson

12:16 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #5743: Make dashboard handle report version 2

Bugs in the first patch submitted fixed in
commit:8aa6b75f92cf88c97fe5e250118071aac67752df Matt Robinson

11:03 pm Bug #5118 (Closed): Package audit => ensure reverts to previous state

This was fixed by a major refactor of the way auditing is implemented. See commit:7fff7808e25491a5ea1e207b8de3ade0c4... Paul Berry

09:59 pm Bug #5811 (Closed): Puppetd doesn't re-attempt connections after puppetmaster failure

After a particularly evil failure that took out all of my production puppetmasters earlier this week, some long runni... eric sorenson

07:43 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #5809 (Closed): Dashboard should work regardless of version of i18n gem installed

Uninstalling the i18n gem fixes this, but having it on your system
If you have the most recent version of the i18n ... Matt Robinson

07:23 pm Bug #5046: Mixed invocation of parameterized classes leads to order dependencies, should be disal...

John Bollinger wrote:
>I strongly desire that, at minimum, multiple declarations of the same class with all-default ... Nigel Kersten

06:50 pm Bug #5046: Mixed invocation of parameterized classes leads to order dependencies, should be disal...

Nigel Kersten wrote:
> To get down a discussion a few of us had in person, I believe there was general consensus of:... John Bollinger

06:46 pm Bug #5806 (Accepted): puppet cert --clean --all should prompt for confirmation

It's cool that you can run any combination of --sign --list and --clean with --all, but really --clean --all is a sho... Hunter Haugen

01/07/2011

01:12 am Bug #5799 (Closed): Puppet shouldn't need to use the Settings class to make a directory

In lib/puppet/reports/store.rb, the mkclientdir method has a rather roundabout way to create a directory: it creates ... Paul Berry

12:26 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #5116 (Closed): Should be able to hide or disable no longer reporting nodes

Merged to master in commit:71125c2924c47f618d485afc4fb2c6d860a59d07. Nick Lewis

12:23 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #4972 (Closed): There should be a rake task in the package namespace to create the approp...

Merged to master in commit:71125c2924c47f618d485afc4fb2c6d860a59d07. Nick Lewis

12:17 am Puppet Dashboard Bug #4661 (Closed): Groups and classes should be sorted by name rather than id

Nick Lewis

12:17 am Puppet Dashboard Feature #4474 (Closed): External Nodes should be optional

Nick Lewis

12:10 am Bug #4867: Puppet raises error when trying to set owner to non-existant user

This issue is also occurring for me. The catalog is used to setup central LDAP authentication as well as trying to s... Keith Minkler

11:55 pm Feature #5795: There should be a Node Terminus that uses a local YAML file like an External Node ...

> Can you show me an example of how the API looks using curl or the like?
I have an init script on my images that do... Jared Brothers

11:32 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5798: Support more than one test directory on systest harness command line

I have an implementation of this in my local checkout. Daniel Pittman

11:31 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5798 (Closed): Support more than one test directory on systest harness command line

At the moment you can specify the '-t' option multiple times, but the test harness will only use the last one specifi... Daniel Pittman

10:28 pm Feature #5795 (Needs More Information): There should be a Node Terminus that uses a local YAML fi...

This is really cool - can you show me an example of how the API looks using curl or the like?
How are you passin... James Turnbull

10:01 pm Feature #5795 (Needs More Information): There should be a Node Terminus that uses a local YAML fi...

I wrote a node terminus that pulls the node data from a local file (/etc/puppet/node.yaml) in the same format as the ... Jared Brothers

08:00 pm Bug #5794 (Closed): puppet reports tries to create .../reports/$fqdn without creating .../reports

Found while testing `puppet apply` with `--vardir=/tmp --confdir=/tmp --ssldir=/tmp`:
err: /File[/tmp/reports/... Daniel Pittman

07:10 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5793 (Closed): Extend testing DSL to eliminate "step" statement...

One of the most common patterns in my current test code is:
step "foo"
on host, "blah blah"
step "... Daniel Pittman

06:39 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #5743 (Merged - Pending Release): Make dashboard handle report version 2

Available in branch "next" as of commit:ee514557cdfe147ec06e18cd01afc9dc806a27f2 Paul Berry

04:31 pm Feature #4976: force package install

Aggelos Economopoulos wrote:
> I think having providers that ignore 'force' would be a serious POLA violation. A lot... Nigel Kersten

04:28 pm Puppet Dashboard Feature #5243 (Accepted): Ability to "acknowledge" a failing host

Agreed. I think we need to support a couple of default tags, and allow for free-form specification. Nigel Kersten

01/06/2011

12:38 pm Bug #5610: hasstatus breaks dependency of named service resource.

Here's a stack trace of the first invocation:
/usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/service/init.rb:13... Stefan Schulte

12:12 pm Bug #5610: hasstatus breaks dependency of named service resource.

The type / provider code is normally not aware of the resource title. That's what puzzles me. You can write
se... Stefan Schulte

04:17 am Bug #5789: launchd provider parses all plists twice, and uses too much CPU

We do seem to have an unavoidable performance cost here. Ideally we could get to the ServiceManagement ObjC framework... Nigel Kersten

04:14 am Bug #5789: launchd provider parses all plists twice, and uses too much CPU

It looks like it was a good thing we reverted the RubyCocoa patch. The performance there is quite atrocious.
We de... Nigel Kersten

03:05 am Bug #5789 (Closed): launchd provider parses all plists twice, and uses too much CPU

We shouldn't be parsing everything twice, and it appears that piping to /dev/stdout is particularly slow on OS X. Nigel Kersten

11:48 pm Bug #5771 (Merged - Pending Release): Upgrade RSpec to version 2

Changes available in 2.6.next in commit:a05df9fec9040a908f28e4c324845ec80daa54eb and commit:83ac3e789ddc8dbf40c934600... Nick Lewis

10:15 pm Feature #5786 (Needs More Information): Develop "archive" (bz2/gz) package provider.

Many of my manifests for applications need to cover the following process:
1. Download <application>.tar.gz to host
... Michael Knox

10:05 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #5785 (Closed): Report table cleanup

Remove redundancy, make table sortable, groupable, nice to read. Use value instead of message. Matt Robinson

09:53 pm Feature #5783: support HTTP(S) URL as the file 'source'

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> This would be good to support; obviously the metadata for the HTTP URI is much less availa... eric sorenson

09:45 pm Bug #5547: Periodic "source did not contain any PSON!" error on all clients. Server / client vers...

Hi,
same issue here. I'm running puppet 2.6.4 build from the stable tarball from puppetlabs.org both on client and... Alexander Hofmann

09:43 pm Bug #5778 (Closed): please resolve legacy URLs referencing puppet website

Tikcets now redirecting. James Turnbull

08:10 pm Feature #5784 (Closed): Support 'audit' on a machine without any 'agent' run...

The single biggest use of the audit feature I can identify would be to see what puppet would start managing on those ... Daniel Pittman

08:06 pm Feature #5783 (Accepted): support HTTP(S) URL as the file 'source'

Lots and lots of folks want to be able to do this:
file { "/tmp/example.txt": source => 'http://example.com/ex... Daniel Pittman

05:52 pm Bug #5778 (Investigating): please resolve legacy URLs referencing puppet website

We moved both wiki and tracker several years ago. A large number of pages have redirections but we never redirected ... James Turnbull

04:32 pm Feature #5779 (Accepted): Drop privileges for a manifest/module

Our environment consists of about 600 Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, and soon 6 servers. We use cfengine 2 current... Jason Parrott

04:26 pm Bug #5778 (Closed): please resolve legacy URLs referencing puppet website

Puppet Labs seems to have moved their content, both issue trackers and wiki pages, and URLs which exist across the in... Nick S

01/05/2011

03:22 pm Feature #5777 (Closed): it would be nice if auth.conf supported subnets

currently the docs only suggest hostnames and IP addresses are supported (whereas fileserver.conf does support them)
... Adrian Bridgett

03:30 am Feature #4976: force package install

Just for reference, yum does not have any --nodeps option and I doubt it ever will. You would have to fall back to r... Todd Zullinger

01:24 am Puppet Forge Bug #5772 (Ready For Checkin): Custom facts in wrong location

Fixed and pushed in commit:0db067595d8b4b0c83993561e092a9b66efff32f. Will be merged in 0.3.3. James Turnbull

12:59 am Bug #5752 (Accepted): Solaris 10 root crontab gets destroyed

James Turnbull

12:55 am Bug #5752: Solaris 10 root crontab gets destroyed

Yikes - I've just reviewed quite a few of our root crontabs, and this happens on our Solaris 10 U9 servers (not zones... John Warburton

12:45 am Puppet Forge Bug #5772 (Investigating): Custom facts in wrong location

James Turnbull

12:07 am Puppet Forge Bug #5772 (Closed): Custom facts in wrong location

I generated a module with puppet-module
...
bla-test/lib/puppet/facter
bla-test/lib/puppet/facter/RE... Markus Falb

12:02 am Bug #5771 (Closed): Upgrade RSpec to version 2

The thing we really want from this upgrade is --fail-fast. Matt Robinson