Activity

From 04/04/2012 to 04/10/2012

04/11/2012

07:30 pm Refactor #13691 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Update puppet master for spec_helper compatibil...
Chris Price
07:05 pm Bug #13553 (Closed): Puppet master can be cause to read data until it is out of memory
Released in 2.7.13, 2.6.15 Moses Mendoza
07:04 pm Bug #13260 (Closed): appdmg and pkgdmg providers write packages to insecure location
Released in 2.7.13, 2.6.15 Moses Mendoza
07:02 pm Bug #13552: Puppet master will save files to any place on disk
Released in 2.7.13, 2.6.15. Moses Mendoza
07:01 pm Bug #13552 (Closed): Puppet master will save files to any place on disk
Moses Mendoza
06:01 pm Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #13861 (Accepted): update stomp
Moses Mendoza
05:18 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #13867 (Merged - Pending Release): puppet dashboard node:parameters and nodegroup:parameters ...
the new rake task for the puppet dashboard node:parameters and nodegroup:parameters does not check to see if a parame... Patrick Buckley

04/10/2012

03:33 pm Bug #13645 (Tests Insufficient): tagmail: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
A test added to `spec/unit/reports/tagmail_spec.rb` to cover this case would be awesome! Do you mind adding it?
Y...
Jeff Weiss
03:15 pm Facter Bug #10155: VMware virtualization is not xenu
Puppet Enterprise 2.5:... Michael Arnold
03:13 pm Feature #13054 (Merged - Pending Release): Allow schedule type's "range" parameter to span days
Merged in commit [25018ef96c9980ae51badf2ac3a46767600b779d](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/25018ef96c998... Jeff Weiss
12:03 pm Facter Bug #13700: lspci can only determine virtual machines that have graphics cards
The `virtual` fact is still fundamentally broken, because it can't distinguish "host of" and "VM of" on a single mach... Daniel Pittman
11:59 am Feature #12392 (Merged - Pending Release): Support Windows Event Logging and log to it by default
# Merged #
ruby.zip has been updated, repacked and uploaded. It now contains the win32-eventlog gem for Windows.
...
Jeff McCune
11:50 am Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #13572 (Closed): Install of facter 1.6.7-1 fails on CentOS 5.5
This was indeed an incorrect signing issue. Signed the rpm correctly. Also renamed appropriately with el5. The repo s... Moses Mendoza
11:49 am Bug #13859: [Patch] FreeBSD rc.conf variable are not set when a similar variable exists.
Signed. Dave Duchscher
11:36 am Bug #13853 (Investigating): node clean fails on reports
Patrick Carlisle
11:29 am Bug #13859 (Requires CLA to be signed): [Patch] FreeBSD rc.conf variable are not set when a simil...
Thanks, could you please sign the [Contributor License Agreement](https://projects.puppetlabs.com/contributor_license... Patrick Carlisle
11:28 am Bug #13859 (Accepted): [Patch] FreeBSD rc.conf variable are not set when a similar variable exists.
Patrick Carlisle
11:11 am Bug #13633 (Accepted): `puppet resource ssh_authorized_key <user>` should work
It sounds like the expected functionality of `ssh_authorized_key` is that you can specify a user and the type will au... Jeff Weiss
11:00 am Standard Library Refactor #13693 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Modify stdlib spec_helper to use puppetlabs_spe...
Chris Price
10:43 am Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #13572: Install of facter 1.6.7-1 fails on CentOS 5.5
I believe the el5 rpms may have been signed using the el6 method. Moses is investigating. Matthaus Owens
10:31 am Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #13572 (Accepted): Install of facter 1.6.7-1 fails on CentOS 5.5
Haus, confirmed on stock CentOS 5.6 x86_64 VM.... Jeff Weiss
10:21 am Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #13572 (Investigating): Install of facter 1.6.7-1 fails on CentOS 5.5
Jeff Weiss
10:06 am Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #13861 (Closed): update stomp
hello,
There's been some big changes in the stomp gem, I've done a lot of testing with 1.2.2 and think we're good ...
R.I. Pienaar
09:48 am Bug #13312: Dynamic scoping deprecation warnings should be given at the correct times
I'm looking into this as part of the work on #8174. At the moment it looks like it will fix that problem as well. Andrew Parker
09:45 am Refactor #4146 (Needs Decision): Move Nagios types and supporting from core to a module
This isn't going into Telly; we need to decide if it can ever happen. Daniel Pittman
09:40 am Refactor #13692 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Update puppetlabs_spec_helper to use new puppet...
Chris Price
09:24 am Bug #8174: External Node Classifer makes puppet think Facter variables are dynamic lookup issues
Turns out that this only happens if there is a node definition in addition to the enc.
An enc:
#!/usr/bin/...
Andrew Parker
08:48 am Bug #6017: MCX provider doesn't overwrite existing MCX data
I haven't tested, just glanced at the code, but I wonder if doing a `dscl 'localhost', '-mcxdelete', ds_path` just be... Clay Caviness
07:58 am Bug #13312: Dynamic scoping deprecation warnings should be given at the correct times
ok. Daniel, can you organize a review? Nigel Kersten
07:33 am Bug #13859 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): [Patch] FreeBSD rc.conf variable are not set when a ...
rc.conf already has the following line:
bsnmpd_enable="YES"
Unable to set snmpd_enable="YES" because the pro...
Dave Duchscher
07:17 am Feature #13575: class Service too slow
to check a simple file resource is easy because puppet can use pure ruby code (and simple stat system calls). If you ... Stefan Schulte
07:10 am Bug #4409: puppetmasterd does not find custom types for environment
I will be out of the office and reading email sporadically
through Monday, April 9th, and will respond to your
em...
Sandor Sklar
07:07 am Bug #4409: puppetmasterd does not find custom types for environment
Nigel Kersten wrote:
> I suggest we make a new ticket with a fresh description, and mark this one as a duplicate o...
eric sorenson
07:05 am Bug #13858 (Closed): Custom types in environments require loading into master's libdir
An attempt to distill down the back-and-forth from #4409, as it applies to 2.7.x:
* The master needs to load new t...
eric sorenson
04:06 am Bug #12702: Puppet does not specify encoding when setting up rails database connection
Update:
The following content in the timezone.rb file solved the problem for us:
require 'iconv'
Facter.add("time...
Jan Ziegler
02:44 am Bug #13616 (Closed): yum provider will not ensure => latest with different architectures of the s...
Interesting results with glibc, I tried a stock CentOS package on my own machine and I have same behaviour. Looks lik... Luke Bigum
01:58 am Feature #13575: class Service too slow
We are using Scientific Linux, a RHEL5 derivate.
The time I calculated is closer to 1/4 seconds per service, but a...
Pablo Fernandez
09:29 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
Now that I've waited an ungodly time to comment on this, +1 on the plan, presuming the Facter issues can get worked o... Eric Shamow
08:11 pm Bug #13397 (Merged - Pending Release): Puppet 2.7.12 not handling multiple versions of installed ...
Daniel Pittman
08:01 pm Bug #13659 (Merged - Pending Release): Inventory search for integer fact values produces invalid ...
Daniel Pittman
07:57 pm Bug #12101 (Merged - Pending Release): Autoloader class should check path with Puppet::Util::abso...
Daniel Pittman
07:27 pm Refactor #13649 (Merged - Pending Release): A comment on the matching behavior in the Puppet::Nod...
Daniel Pittman
07:17 pm Refactor #13638 (Merged - Pending Release): Replace the 'pre' proc with a SemVer.pre method
Daniel Pittman
07:16 pm Refactor #13643 (Merged - Pending Release): The use of FileUtils.rm_rf should be made secure
Daniel Pittman
07:15 pm Refactor #13642 (Merged - Pending Release): Move "searching the forge..." notice closer to the im...
Daniel Pittman
07:02 pm Bug #3581 (Merged - Pending Release): tagmail + err: PGError: server closed the connection unexpe...
Daniel Pittman
05:14 pm Bug #13616 (Needs More Information): yum provider will not ensure => latest with different archit...
Testing against CentOS 6.2 x86_64 minimal install.
Rather than flash, trying with something without as many deps: ...
Jeff Weiss

04/09/2012

03:55 pm Bug #13617 (Accepted): User/Group auto-relationships not be present when ensure => absent
Patrick Carlisle
03:54 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
Ken--it looks like the current facter just has all of the spec_helper stuff copied in to it directly? e.g. you are n... Chris Price
03:49 pm Bug #13568 (Accepted): Puppet defaults to A record on an IPv6 only client in a dual stack environ...
Unfortunately this is caused by an issue in the ruby platform. There's a compile-time flag that specifies the lookup ... Patrick Carlisle
03:29 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
just talked this over with Jeff. Planning on proceeding with the plan described in the previous comment, but the new... Chris Price
03:16 pm Bug #13853 (Investigating): node clean fails on reports
The node clean command failed on the report directory. I expected it to remove the contents of this directory.
...
Brian Pitts
03:07 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
Good times. I just realized that the existing puppetlabs_spec_helper was created by Ken about 4 months ago, to reduc... Chris Price
02:29 pm Refactor #13639 (Merged - Pending Release): Use Puppet.err not $stderr when logging errors
Merged in commit [aa267eff69dd5ce6e840bc2aa9592592ea7681d8](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/aa267eff69dd5... Jeff Weiss
02:10 pm Bug #13312: Dynamic scoping deprecation warnings should be given at the correct times
Review? Merge? Make sure it doesn't break CI? I'm not familiar with this part of the game... the game. The Game. Hunter Haugen
01:33 pm Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #12677: Error from apt-mirror replicating apt.puppetlabs.com due to a typo in the Packages files
Confirmed to now be working correctly, thank you. Aaron Huber
01:29 pm Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #12677 (Closed): Error from apt-mirror replicating apt.puppetlabs.com due to a typo in the Pa...
Looks like the packages file now has lowercase s in MD5sum, so seems like this has been addressed. Matthaus Owens
01:12 pm Bug #13686 (Merged - Pending Release): directoryservices provider can't handle missing ShadowHash...
# Merged into 2.7.x #... Jeff McCune
01:09 pm Facter Bug #13700: lspci can only determine virtual machines that have graphics cards
The "virtual" fact can only correctly determine the hypervisor for hosts when the host has a graphic cards.
This i...
Dan Bode
01:05 pm Bug #13009: scheduled_task provider considers unix style paths to be out of sync
Nigel Kersten wrote:
> Whats' the status of this? I can't close off the parent roadmap item until these blocking tic...
Jeff McCune
01:02 pm Facter Bug #13700 (Accepted): lspci can only determine virtual machines that have graphics cards
Dan Bode
01:02 pm Refactor #13690 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Update puppet 2.7.x for spec_helper compatibili...
Chris Price
01:02 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
First pull request for this (ticket #13690, the 2.7.x bits) is up for review: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pu... Chris Price
01:00 pm Refactor #13637 (Merged - Pending Release): Rename Puppet::Module::Tool.build_tree to Puppet::Mod...
Merged into 2.7.x with [4ad37dc38dda264d67609795c55dea9644d53aaf](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/4ad37dc... Jeff Weiss
12:45 pm Bug #9167 (Merged - Pending Release): tagmail report sends email when nothing happens
Merged into 2.7.x in [c8db033b5c881b0869a8f89bbbc0973035f3271a](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/c8db033b5... Jeff Weiss
12:38 pm Bug #13009: scheduled_task provider considers unix style paths to be out of sync
Whats' the status of this? I can't close off the parent roadmap item until these blocking tickets are closed. Nigel Kersten
12:38 pm Bug #13008: TypeError when trying to manage scheduled_task arguments
Whats' the status of this? I can't close off the parent roadmap item until these blocking tickets are closed. Nigel Kersten
12:12 pm Bug #8714: Changing SELinux contexts on symlinks requires the '-h' parameter in chcon
I have made a new pull request [646](https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/646) to replace the previous (and inco... Sean Millichamp
12:02 pm Bug #13686 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): directoryservices provider can't handle missing Shad...
Pull request filed --> <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/644> Gary Larizza
11:43 am Bug #13686: directoryservices provider can't handle missing ShadowHashData item
No, I think that's perfectly sane. We should handle that situation. I've got the change and test for it in a topic ... Gary Larizza
11:19 am Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
I had a couple of requests to create individual tickets for the various steps of this process... have done so now, an... Chris Price
11:18 am Feature #13695 (Closed): documentation for spec compatibility between external projects and puppe...
We need to put together some documentation about how external projects should interact with puppet core for spec test... Chris Price
11:08 am Standard Library Refactor #13693 (Merged - Pending Release): Modify stdlib spec_helper to use puppetlabs_spec_helper
This is intended to improve and simplify spec compatibility between stdlib and multiple versions of puppet core. See... Chris Price
11:02 am Refactor #13692 (Closed): Update puppetlabs_spec_helper to use new puppet core spec helper API
It sounds like we are going to start using puppetlabs_spec_helper as a bridge between external projects (stdlib, gray... Chris Price
10:55 am Refactor #13691 (Closed): Update puppet master for spec_helper compatibility with external projects
This basically entails merging / porting the changes from #13690 up from 2.7.x to master. Chris Price
10:50 am Refactor #13690 (Closed): Update puppet 2.7.x for spec_helper compatibility with external projects
This basically entails:
* Introducing a new class (name to be determined--Puppet::Test::SpecHelper?) that will con...
Chris Price
10:45 am Bug #4835: OS X group resource triggers spurious notice of a change
While this is essentially cosmetic, it's really annoying, and leads to nearly all puppet runs exiting 2 (changes appl... Clay Caviness
10:40 am Bug #13312: Dynamic scoping deprecation warnings should be given at the correct times
ok. Where do we go next to make progress? Nigel Kersten
10:38 am Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
I intend to go ahead and start working on this today, so if anyone has any additional input please let me know. Chris Price
09:47 am Bug #13686 (Closed): directoryservices provider can't handle missing ShadowHashData item
If a user plist ends up in a state with no ShadowHashData entry, directoryservices provider is unable to fix, failing... Clay Caviness
09:28 am Feature #12392: Support Windows Event Logging and log to it by default
The puppet_for_the_win pull request is here: <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet_for_the_win/pull/35> Josh Cooper
09:22 am Feature #12392 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Support Windows Event Logging and log to it by d...
Josh Cooper
07:49 am Feature #12930: Provide a manifest directory where all manifests are automatically parsed.
I always hate the semi rendom order of things in .d directories, doesn't matter for nodes I think but for building si... R.I. Pienaar
07:45 am Feature #12930: Provide a manifest directory where all manifests are automatically parsed.
Do you think the name should reflect the "node" component of this Tim?
I had this thought over the weekend that we...
Nigel Kersten
08:11 pm Feature #13054: Allow schedule type's "range" parameter to span days
After discussion and some adjustments I have rebased the commits and made a new pull request at https://github.com/pu... Sean Millichamp
07:57 pm Bug #13682 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Puppet should not conflict with released puppet-modu...
# Pull Request #
<https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/641>
Jeff McCune
06:31 pm Bug #13682: Puppet should not conflict with released puppet-module Gem
# Additional information #
I know I said I thought this was actually my misunderstanding in another channel, but a...
Jeff McCune

04/08/2012

03:04 pm Facter Bug #12337 (Needs More Information): Can not use nest facts when writing custom facts
Facter in general allows dependent facts. It just doesn't tell when it reaches a recursion and these recursions are n... Stefan Schulte
02:37 pm Feature #13680: Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
for the service provider: Has Funtoo always used OpenRC (`/sbin/rc-service`, `/bin/rc-status`, `/sbin/rc-update`) to ... Stefan Schulte
02:31 pm Facter Bug #12831 (Merged - Pending Release): recursion on fact resultion: kernel
Merged here:
<https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/commit/656019cfa43d238e2997b08a1874bf1d2e09c292>
Ken Barber
02:13 pm Feature #13680: Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
@haus - can you comment on this ticket? Like I said - I'm wary here as it means when someone upgrades Facter with thi... Ken Barber
01:16 pm Feature #13680: Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
> So I think for 'package/portage.rb' a safer attitude is to remove the confine instead of adding 'funtoo' too it and... Ken Barber
01:13 pm Feature #13680: Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
Just clearing the branch as that work has moved to a new ticket, I don't have permission in the Puppet project to cha... Ken Barber
01:12 pm Feature #13680: Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
I've separated the Facter ticket out to #13683 to track it, and linked it as a blocker. This ticket I'm typing in now... Ken Barber
01:00 pm Facter Feature #13683: Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
Pull request is here:
<https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/190>
Ken Barber
12:58 pm Facter Feature #13683: Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
Cloning original ticket, to split out Facter changes from Puppet changes. Ken Barber
12:58 pm Facter Feature #13683 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
[Funtoo Linux](http://www.funtoo.org/) is a Fork of Gentoo Linux from the former creator of Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robb... Ken Barber
12:22 pm Bug #13682 (Closed): Puppet should not conflict with released puppet-module Gem
# Overview #
The current behavior of Puppet 2.7.x (2.7.12-99-g8ceaaf0) declares some constants which conflicts wit...
Jeff McCune

04/07/2012

04:07 pm Bug #13679 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): dollar signs can't be used in puppet.conf
I'm not sure if we need a general escaping mechanism or if we should just skip value interpolation for different sett... Stefan Schulte
03:39 pm Bug #13679 (Accepted): dollar signs can't be used in puppet.conf
verified that the current implementation does not have any escaping mechanism:
lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:...
Stefan Schulte
02:30 pm Feature #13680 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
Hi Marc,
thanks for your explanations and the sample outputs. This really helped writing a patch for facter.
Stefan Schulte
01:48 pm Bug #8757: Resources type and metaparameters don't seem to work, specifically notify.
Additionally for my example, the first alias that appears in the file that would be purged does not get purged while ... Matt Dainty
01:02 pm Bug #8757: Resources type and metaparameters don't seem to work, specifically notify.
I've just hit this bug with 2.7.12 trying to use the resources type to purge unwanted mailaliases and then rebuild th... Matt Dainty
12:01 pm Feature #12930: Provide a manifest directory where all manifests are automatically parsed.
I love the idea of Puppet loading everything under a specified node_dir. I say everything and not autoload as we cur... Tim Sharpe
04:46 am Facter Refactor #13678 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Facter should implement its own which command
Stefan Schulte
02:20 am Feature #13680 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Distinguish "Funtoo" from "Gentoo" Linux
[Funtoo Linux](http://www.funtoo.org/) is a Fork of Gentoo Linux from the former creator of Gentoo Linux, Daniel Robb... Marc Richter
01:38 am Bug #13679 (Code Insufficient): dollar signs can't be used in puppet.conf
Plain dollar signs ($) can't be used inside puppet.conf.
I tried quoting text with quotes and escaping with \ and ne...
Daniel Friesen

04/06/2012

04:53 pm Bug #13659: Inventory search for integer fact values produces invalid SQL with Postgres as storec...
Thanks for addressing this so quickly! The patch works fine, I can now successfully search for `processorcount = 4`. Andreas Ntaflos
03:50 pm Facter Bug #13396: Facter not working with recent net-tools
FYI: I've opened a request #13678 to refactor `Puppet::Util::Resolution.exec` Stefan Schulte
03:48 pm Facter Refactor #13678: Facter should implement its own which command
I've written something that will currently pass all tests but I still have to add a few additional test cases Stefan Schulte
03:27 pm Bug #13669 (Rejected): Puppet run with fail function generates 'unchanged' report status
Rejecting my own bug. It seems I did something weird last night because it's actually generating failed reports when ... James Turnbull
03:18 pm Facter Refactor #13678 (Closed): Facter should implement its own which command
Currently `Facter::Util::Resolution.exec` relies on `which` to check if a command can be executed. This basically mea... Stefan Schulte
02:50 pm Facter Bug #13668: undefined method `watch' for #<Object:0x10fb852a8 @operatingsystem="Darwin"
That is odd. The output you gave shows facts as being loaded relative to the current directory, e.g. `Error loading f... Patrick Carlisle
02:48 pm Bug #13655 (Closed): Multiple failures when running (master) specs on Centos 5
Submitted as a pull request and already merged for master and 2.7.x. Andrew Parker
02:40 pm Bug #13659 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Inventory search for integer fact values produces in...
Thanks, this looks straightforward enough to fix. I've submitted a pull request at https://github.com/puppetlabs/pupp... Patrick Carlisle
02:33 pm Bug #13659 (Investigating): Inventory search for integer fact values produces invalid SQL with Po...
Patrick Carlisle
02:22 pm Facter Bug #13668: undefined method `watch' for #<Object:0x10fb852a8 @operatingsystem="Darwin"
Weird as I don't have Facter checked out into that directory. Maybe it's in RUBYLIB somewhere. James Turnbull
02:19 pm Facter Bug #13668: undefined method `watch' for #<Object:0x10fb852a8 @operatingsystem="Darwin"
This happens because you have the facter source checked out in your current directory. `RUBYLIB` contains . and facte... Patrick Carlisle
02:08 pm Facter Bug #13668 (Investigating): undefined method `watch' for #<Object:0x10fb852a8 @operatingsystem="D...
Patrick Carlisle
01:14 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
Jeff McCune wrote:
> 1. It's always bugged the crap out of me that irb -r puppet gives you something only semi-fu...
Chris Price
01:10 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
Chris Price wrote:
> So, here is a straw-man proposal... feedback / suggestions / corrections much appreciated:
>
> ...
Jeff McCune
12:41 pm Feature #13675 (Duplicate): Import vs autoloading deprecation warning message
I couldn't find anything related other than a single ticket related to Telly [1] but I might have looked over it.<br>... Tom De Vylder
12:16 pm Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
+1 This something we talked about before and having the API will make it much easier for external testing tools. I gu... Kelsey Hightower
11:38 am Feature #13674 (Accepted): nagios resource: add support for ipv6 addresses
We had a pull request to add ipv6 support to the nagios host resource type:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/p...
Chris Price
11:16 am Refactor #12396 (Merged - Pending Release): DRY up self.timeout
Chris Price
10:41 am Facter Bug #13396: Facter not working with recent net-tools
Krzysztof Wilczynski wrote:
>
> I don't like work-around problems like that :)
>
> Perhaps its the time to incl...
Stefan Schulte
09:46 am Bug #7801 (Merged - Pending Release): include function should accept an array
Chris Price
09:33 am Bug #1076 (Merged - Pending Release): Error whilst reducing users' groups to zero.
Chris Price
08:03 am Bug #7236: Nim Package Provider for AIX Fails to install Packages. Fix included!
Hello,
I had a (possibly) similar issue where the nimclient command was coming back with exit status of 1 and refu...
Nick Bausch
02:20 am Bug #13669 (Accepted): Puppet run with fail function generates 'unchanged' report status
If I have a Puppet run that is failed with the fail function:... James Turnbull
01:56 am Facter Bug #13668 (Duplicate): undefined method `watch' for #<Object:0x10fb852a8 @operatingsystem="Darwin"
OSX 10.7
Puppet: 2.7.12
Facter: 1.6.7
Puppet and Facter installed via gems....
James Turnbull
10:01 pm Feature #12392: Support Windows Event Logging and log to it by default
Eventlog support has been implemented (adding an eventlog destination, and writing to it by default) here <https://gi... Josh Cooper
09:33 pm Bug #13640 (Accepted): Puppet master gets into an infinite loop
So there's definitely a bug in the new event-loop code. In commit <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/3df8ee... Josh Cooper

04/05/2012

04:26 pm Bug #13659 (Closed): Inventory search for integer fact values produces invalid SQL with Postgres ...
Using Puppet 2.7.12, Dashboard 1.2.6, PostgreSQL 8.4 for Puppet storeconfigs and using the Puppet inventory server fe... Andreas Ntaflos
03:09 pm Bug #13567 (Merged - Pending Release): create_resources pseudo-randomly overrides provided :name ...
Chris Price
03:03 pm Bug #13645 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): tagmail: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during co...
Stefan Schulte
03:01 pm Bug #13567 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): create_resources pseudo-randomly overrides provided ...
Chris Price
02:54 pm Bug #13564: Stomp feature is specified but unused
Okay, thanks. Patrick Carlisle
02:50 pm Bug #13645 (Accepted): tagmail: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
Definitely a bug. :) Daniel Pittman
02:32 pm Bug #13645 (Investigating): tagmail: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
I was able to verify that running... Stefan Schulte
02:31 pm Facter Feature #11299 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Facter should utilize CFPropertyList to read/wri...
Pull request filed --> <https://github.com/puppetlabs/facter/pull/188>
Spoke with Ken about a month ago regarding ...
Gary Larizza
02:25 pm Bug #13613 (Duplicate): boolean param values not working as expected
Patrick Carlisle
02:24 pm Bug #13594 (Investigating): netbsd support
You could inherit from useradd and then just override chage and the options, but I don't know if you'd then be able t... Patrick Carlisle
02:12 pm Bug #12140: puppetqd incorrectly updating hosts.ip of agent to IP of system puppetqd is running on
I would like to see this fixed soon as well. Our environment has forced us to go to async configuration and having t... Cory Stoker
02:11 pm Refactor #13647 (Investigating): Change the installer notice to something less frightening
The message is worded that way because we do not guarantee the atomicity of the install / upgrade process. Until tha... Pieter van de Bruggen
02:09 pm Bug #13564 (Accepted): Stomp feature is specified but unused
It's more that it's inconsistent behaviour - we require 'stomp' rather than check the feature as we do with other fea... James Turnbull
02:09 pm Bug #13655: Multiple failures when running (master) specs on Centos 5
Isn't this the issue where the useradd/groupadd commands are not world executable on centos 5 (so none of the provide... Josh Cooper
02:06 pm Bug #13564 (Needs More Information): Stomp feature is specified but unused
Have you seen a failure from this or is it just something you noticed in the code?
I'm not 100% clear on how util/...
Patrick Carlisle
02:02 pm Bug #13655 (Accepted): Multiple failures when running (master) specs on Centos 5
Andrew Parker
01:51 pm Bug #13563 (Needs Decision): Puppet CA doesn't verify CSR signature
Patrick Carlisle
01:50 pm Bug #13655 (Closed): Multiple failures when running (master) specs on Centos 5
The box is running Centos 5.5, 64bit architecture, Ruby 1.8.5 with all of the documented requirements for running Pup... Justin Stoller
01:50 pm Bug #13563 (Accepted): Puppet CA doesn't verify CSR signature
Patrick Carlisle
01:32 pm Bug #13653: The epoch tag isn't included in the package ensure notice 'from' version.
Or maybe you want the epoch either way so you can keep better track of what you have. I'd defer to someone who actual... Patrick Carlisle
01:31 pm Bug #13653: The epoch tag isn't included in the package ensure notice 'from' version.
It seems reasonable to me that it would display the epoch on both when it's changed, and neither when it hasn't.
I...
Patrick Carlisle
01:29 pm Bug #13653 (Accepted): The epoch tag isn't included in the package ensure notice 'from' version.
Patrick Carlisle
01:22 pm Feature #11298: Puppet should utilize CFPropertyList to read/write plist files
Refactored and submitted pull request --> <https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/622> Gary Larizza
01:19 pm Feature #12741: Add a hook for dumping thread state / backtrace of a running puppet process
I'm the guy from Chris' community ticket (Issue #2888).
I gave xray a try, but AFAIK (according to my understandin...
Jason Antman
01:06 pm Bug #2888: puppetd doesn't always cleanup lockfile properly
I'm pretty sure the problem I was describing is better tracked in Issue #12185, which seems to more accurately explai... Jason Antman
12:56 pm Bug #13537 (Needs More Information): Overriding class parameters doesn't actually pass new parame...
That's my suspicion too.
In many ways class inheritance was there to fill in some of the gaps that parameterized ...
Nigel Kersten
12:36 pm Bug #13537 (Needs Decision): Overriding class parameters doesn't actually pass new parameters.
It seems that the documented feature of class inheritance (see http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/language_guide.html#... Andrew Parker
11:35 am Facter Bug #12864: Windows domain fact should use primary dns suffix first
FWIW, I was able to fetch the domain name with the following WMI query:
Facter::Util::WMI.execQuery("select Do...
Brian Kane
11:32 am Bug #13653 (Accepted): The epoch tag isn't included in the package ensure notice 'from' version.
I have a package block which is using ensure=>latest where the package in question is an RPM using the epoch tag.
Th...
Jude Nagurney
11:31 am Feature #4113: Allow provider-specific options as a first class part of the RAL model.
I have a need for passing --nogpgcheck to the yum provider. Is some generic options mechanism coming or should the y... Joshua Hoblitt
09:31 am Bug #13651 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): in puppet/util/colors.rb we are using the term 'purp...
Merge request here:
<https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/631>
If you think this kind of change warrants s...
Ken Barber
09:20 am Bug #13651 (Closed): in puppet/util/colors.rb we are using the term 'purple' when it should be 'm...
So colors.rb was introduced with #12080, but we mistakenly used the term 'purple' instead of the standard 'magenta'. Ken Barber
09:13 am Bug #11860: Puppet ovewriting the LANG environment variable.
FJ - with respect to the UTF-8 issue, it is possible that that is a Ruby issue rather than a puppet issue. I believe... Chris Price
09:00 am Refactor #13649 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): A comment on the matching behavior in the Puppe...
Kelsey Hightower
08:25 am Refactor #13649: A comment on the matching behavior in the Puppet::Node::Environment#modules_by_p...
Also make the module name match more restrictive. We should only match valid module names:
puppetlabs-apache-vho...
Kelsey Hightower
08:21 am Refactor #13649 (Closed): A comment on the matching behavior in the Puppet::Node::Environment#mod...
Kelsey Hightower
08:10 am Bug #13567: create_resources pseudo-randomly overrides provided :name parameters
Patrick Carlisle wrote:
> Is this just a bug fix or does it change behavior in some other way that necessitates targ...
Anonymous
08:08 am Puppet Forge Refactor #13648 (Accepted): Protect against path names with spaces or metacharacters in the PMT u...
We need to protect against path names with spaces or metacharacters in `lib/puppet/module_tool/applications/unpacker.... Kelsey Hightower
08:02 am Refactor #13647 (Investigating): Change the installer notice to something less frightening
Currently the install notice message reads as follows
<cite>Installing -- do not interrupt ...</cite>
This shou...
Kelsey Hightower
07:58 am Puppet Forge Refactor #13646 (Accepted): PMT execeptions should take an explicit set of arguments vs options hash
Kelsey Hightower
07:56 am Bug #12140: puppetqd incorrectly updating hosts.ip of agent to IP of system puppetqd is running on
This seems to be related to Issue #3923 which was rejected from no one reproducing. That was set to High, should thi... Jacob McCann
07:48 am Bug #13645 (Closed): tagmail: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
I get a lot of the following messages when I look into `/var/log/mail` of our smtp relay... Stefan Schulte
07:26 am Puppet Forge Refactor #13644 (Accepted): Remove the PMT module cache
We should remove the PMT module download cache in favor of simply deleting module tarballs downloaded from the forge ... Kelsey Hightower
06:44 am Refactor #13643 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): The use of FileUtils.rm_rf should be made secure
Kelsey Hightower
06:40 am Bug #9225: Stored configs db hits integer limit
So I followed the advice of the bug creator to band-aid this. Here is what I did for others who are not mysql litera... Jacob McCann
06:28 am Refactor #2286: Improved purging of resources
My colleague wrote at least a partial solution for this: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/628.
This pull ...
Alexander Swen
06:27 am Bug #9225: Stored configs db hits integer limit
This started occurring for me this morning. :(... Jacob McCann
06:24 am Refactor #13643 (Closed): The use of FileUtils.rm_rf should be made secure
All uses of the `FileUtils.rm_rf` method should be made secure by setting the `:secure` option to true.
From the o...
Kelsey Hightower
06:03 am Refactor #13642 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Move "searching the forge..." notice closer to ...
Kelsey Hightower
05:55 am Refactor #13642 (Closed): Move "searching the forge..." notice closer to the implementation
Currently the PMT search action assumes the searcher implementation will connect to the HTTP server defined by `Puppe... Kelsey Hightower
05:20 am Bug #13613: boolean param values not working as expected
A work-around would be to use validate_bool from stdlib:
<https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-stdlib/blob/mas...
Ken Barber
10:26 pm Bug #13640: Puppet master gets into an infinite loop
Josh,
Can you test to see if the issue goes away if you remove the eventloop commit?
Kelsey Hightower
10:20 pm Bug #13640 (Closed): Puppet master gets into an infinite loop
When I run puppet master recently from 2.7.x, I am seeing the cpu sometimes getting pinned, and more recently segfaul... Josh Cooper
10:18 pm Refactor #13639 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Use Puppet.err not $stderr when logging errors
Kelsey Hightower
09:47 pm Bug #13613: boolean param values not working as expected
Okay, but does this make sense, or: is the official way to deal with booleans to convert them to strings and compare ... Bill Tong
09:41 pm Refactor #13639 (Closed): Use Puppet.err not $stderr when logging errors
Need to clean up `lib/puppet/forge/repository.rb` to not send errors directly to $stderr Kelsey Hightower
09:33 pm Refactor #13638 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Replace the 'pre' proc with a SemVer.pre method
Kelsey Hightower
09:18 pm Feature #11608: Lowrider: Data/Model separation by including Hiera-like functionality in Puppet
Added the explicit dependency to #7801. Luke Kanies
07:52 pm Refactor #13638 (Closed): Replace the 'pre' proc with a SemVer.pre method
A method should be used in place of the 'pre' proc used in the `Semver#[]` method. Kelsey Hightower
07:25 pm Refactor #13637 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Rename Puppet::Module::Tool.build_tree to Puppe...
Kelsey Hightower
06:37 pm Refactor #13637 (Closed): Rename Puppet::Module::Tool.build_tree to Puppet::Module::Tool.format_tree
Currently the `Puppet::Module::Tool.build_tree` method name is a bit confusing, it should be renamed to `Puppet::Modu... Kelsey Hightower
06:33 pm Refactor #13636 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Update Module Face copyright date
Kelsey Hightower
06:13 pm Refactor #13636 (Closed): Update Module Face copyright date
The the Module face has undergone meanifingful code changes in 2012 and should be update to reflect that. Kelsey Hightower
05:31 pm Bug #13317 (Closed): Storeconfig error with postgresql
Andrew Parker
05:20 pm Bug #13317: Storeconfig error with postgresql
Turns out that this is selinux stopping the puppet master from accessing postgres. Andrew Parker
05:08 pm Bug #13634 (Closed): Module metadata should lazy load
The initialization process for modules loads the metadata.json file, if available, even during compilation. Since no... Carl Caum

04/04/2012

04:16 pm Bug #13312: Dynamic scoping deprecation warnings should be given at the correct times
I sat down with Nick towards the end but I wouldn't call that a final review. He probably understands scope more than... Hunter Haugen
04:00 pm Bug #13317 (Accepted): Storeconfig error with postgresql
I've been able to reproduce this on a VM. Svein, thanks for the clear information, it helped a lot in getting a simil... Andrew Parker
03:53 pm Bug #13614 (Investigating): Puppet running ruby1.9 isn't working reliably
Daniel, does this look like any of the issues you fixed for 1.9.3 in master? If so, reasonable to backport? Patrick Carlisle
03:52 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5738: Run spec tests across supported platforms
Those look like genuine failures to me. I guess they should have their own ticket. :) Daniel Pittman
03:44 pm Bug #13613: boolean param values not working as expected
This is because the "in" operator requires that the left operand be a string.
See <http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides...
Patrick Carlisle
03:42 pm Bug #13633 (Accepted): `puppet resource ssh_authorized_key <user>` should work
One of my clients remarked that he was working through the Learning Puppet track and ran into a stack trace.
Learn...
Hunter Haugen
03:32 pm Puppet Acceptance Feature #5738: Run spec tests across supported platforms
I've ran the tests again and here are the specs that are currently failing in Master as of 4/4/12:... Justin Stoller
03:14 pm Bug #13622 (Rejected): err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: N...
Unfortunately running an agent with a newer major version than the master is unsupported. You can run a 2.6.x agent a... Patrick Carlisle
03:08 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #13565 (In Topic Branch Pending Review): Left over ~ and .bak files in 1.2.7
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet-dashboard/pull/95 Patrick Carlisle
03:08 pm Puppet Dashboard Bug #13565 (Accepted): Left over ~ and .bak files in 1.2.7
Patrick Carlisle
02:55 pm Bug #13340 (Closed): Puppet agent doesn't properly get certificate ubuntu client centos puppetma...
Hi Banio,
I'm glad puppet is now working for you. Closing the ticket now.
Stefan Schulte
02:23 pm Facter Feature #1919: Please have facter provide something other than arch to distinguish /usr/lib vs /u...
Hi,
What is this fact about? I can't seem to be able to figure it out. Is it about discovering 32 bit libraries vs...
Krzysztof Wilczynski
02:18 pm Facter Feature #4995: LXC Container support
Hi,
> One small note about this, the `lxc` in libvirt and the `lxc` outside it are different projects using the sa...
Krzysztof Wilczynski
02:03 pm Feature #13547 (Accepted): Mac OS X group provider should allow the specification of the group's ...
I assume we'd want this for users as well Patrick Carlisle
01:56 pm Feature #6890: No default for 'puppetdlog' in puppet 2.6.6
This is a duplicate of #4550
The logging related tickets are a maze of twisty passages, all different. If there is...
Brian Pitts
01:54 pm Feature #13539 (Needs Decision): puppetd output - file resources
Patrick Carlisle
01:48 pm Bug #13567 (Code Insufficient): create_resources pseudo-randomly overrides provided :name parameters
Is this just a bug fix or does it change behavior in some other way that necessitates targeting master instead of 2.7.x? Patrick Carlisle
01:21 pm Bug #13562 (Code Insufficient): rake task's name for building a gem is non-standard
I'd like it if this added the standard name and kept the old name as an alias. Patrick Carlisle
11:58 am Bug #13567: create_resources pseudo-randomly overrides provided :name parameters
patch in pull request looks good to me, but we need a spec or two. Chris Price
10:54 am Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
p.s., in order to prevent the current code from shipping with the next puppet release, we will need to make a decisio... Chris Price
10:53 am Bug #13595 (Accepted): initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
So, here is a straw-man proposal... feedback / suggestions / corrections much appreciated:
1. Revert my changes to v...
Chris Price
09:40 am Bug #13622 (Rejected): err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: N...
Using a 2.7.12 client against a 2.6.14 master results in:
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: ...
Orion Poplawski
09:32 am Bug #13595: initialize_everything_for_tests couples modules to specific Puppet versions
That sounds promising--are modules et al already using that project?
I've chatted with a few folks about this issu...
Chris Price
09:27 am Bug #11860: Puppet ovewriting the LANG environment variable.
In a lot of cases, we are indeed parsing the output, and that was the general motivation for this.
It should be a ...
Chris Price
08:28 am Bug #13340: Puppet agent doesn't properly get certificate ubuntu client centos puppetmaster
This has been resolved. It was a stupid mistake on my end. It appears the root "/" permissions were wrong.
drwxr-...
Banio Carpenter
07:24 am Puppet Community Package Repository Bug #12715: rabbitmq-plugin-stomp RPM requires missing rabbitmq-plugin-amqp
Haus, is this still open, or has it been resolved with the recent changes to the repositories?
I have an open task...
Jeff McCune
06:04 am Bug #13617 (Accepted): User/Group auto-relationships not be present when ensure => absent
If you define a user and a group and try to remove both of them (ensure => absent), the user still autorequires the g... Trevor Vaughan
05:46 am Bug #11860: Puppet ovewriting the LANG environment variable.
I've been using puppet for a while but this issue has been bugging me so much that I finally felt a need to register ... FJ Landzaat
03:48 am Bug #13616 (Re-opened): yum provider will not ensure => latest with different architectures of th...
The yum package provider seems to be getting confused when there are multiple architecture RPMs of the same package i... Luke Bigum
02:14 am Bug #13614 (Investigating): Puppet running ruby1.9 isn't working reliably
I have a three-node scenario. It consists of :... Marc Richter
01:19 am Bug #13613 (Duplicate): boolean param values not working as expected
FAILS:
define aaa::bbb($recurse=true) {
if ! ( $recurse in [ 'true', 'false' ] ) {
fail("Unk...
Bill Tong
01:14 am Feature #12179: Package resource should allow ensure=>">1.0" or ensure=>"<0.10" as well as 'lates...
How about adding an "ornewer" flag? If I know that kernel 1.2.3 has a bug, I want to ensure I have 1.2.4 or newer. or... Bill Tong
 

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