On Sep 29, 1:16 pm, Josh <joshua.l.greenb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Background:
>
> I like to keep installed apps in a non-standard area and sym link to
> the binaries, libraries and other files through the /usr/local tree so
> that they're in the user's path. The purpose of this is to help with
> software versions, upgrades and to allow me to keep multiple versions
> of apps on one machine which can be useful for interpreters like perl
> or python. I created a file repository under /etc/puppet that is
> filled with these sym links and I'm trying to push them out to the
> servers but I keep getting the error "Could not evaluate: Got nil
> value for content" in the logs and it's not pushing the sym links. My
> configuration in the manifest is the following:
>
> file { "/usr":
> path => "/usr",
> ensure => present,
> recurse => true,
> links => manage,
> force => true,
> source => "puppet://puppet/app/usr",
> notify => Service[app],
> }
>
> I started with a very bare bones configuration but added ensure, links
> and force after doing some research. From what I've read the links
> directive is supposed to make this work but it's unclear to me if
> there is a bug that prevents this from working in 2.6.x. BTW, this was
> working until a couple of days ago but the Redhat yum repos just
> upgraded from 0.25.5 to 2.6.6 and that seems to have broken this.
> Thanks for any help you can give.
That declaration looks a bit strange, in that you seem to be
configuring a system-wide directory specifically for the "app"
service. Is that some kind of general-purpose management service? I
do advise you to ensure "directory" instead of "present", and to
recurse only over the remote directory:
file { '/usr':
ensure => 'directory',
recurse => 'remote',
links => manage,
force => true,
source => 'puppet://puppet/app/usr',
notify => Service['app'],
}
I don't expect that to change Puppet's behavior, however, and I agree
that the behavior you describe sounds buggy. In particular, when
Puppet is recursively managing a directory with "links => manage", it
should not care whether the links it manages are broken, since it's
just copying them anyway.
John
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