Jos Backus

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  • Puppet (Developer, 02/17/2009)

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Reported issues: 11

04/13/2010

06:58 pm Facter Bug #3411: install.rb should not put "." first in the tmp_dirs
That would work, too.
05:56 pm Facter Bug #3411: install.rb should not put "." first in the tmp_dirs
How about the following patch? If the user set TMP or TEMP, why not assume they meant for us to use them? That way th...
01:14 am Facter Bug #2609: install.rb will not run on ruby 1.9.1 due to ftools being deprecated
The patch also fixes a mode issue in the man directories (was 0644, should probably be 0755).
01:08 am Facter Bug #2609: install.rb will not run on ruby 1.9.1 due to ftools being deprecated
Why not simply use FileUtils always? It should work with both 1.8 and 1.9.
01:04 am Facter Bug #2614: Ruby 1.9 support - remove any deprecated/gone library calls
Fwiw, file.c in 1.9.2 trunk as of today still has:
define_filetest_function("exist?", rb_file_exist_p, 1);
...
12:46 am Facter Bug #3542 (Closed): Ruby 1.9: broken unittest, String#each no longer exists
When running the Facter unit tests under Ruby 1.9, the following failure is seen:
1)
NoMethodError in 'Fa...
12:43 am Facter Bug #3541: Ruby 1.9: broken unittest, unexpected invocation: Process.waitall()
Note that I'm stumped as to why the suggested patch fixes the issue.
12:41 am Facter Bug #3541 (Closed): Ruby 1.9: broken unittest, unexpected invocation: Process.waitall()
When running the Facter unit tests, the following failure is seen:
Facter::Util::Resolution when returning the...

09/21/2009

11:54 pm Puppet Feature #2667 (Accepted): Remove a user from a specific group
Currently, Puppet, at least on RedHat-based OSes has no means of removing a user from a specific group.
This capab...

02/26/2009

12:25 am Puppet Bug #1849: Ruby 1.9 portability: `when' doesn't like colons, replace with semicolons
Patch against 0.24.x HEAD.

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