G'day. We recently found some issues with the `links => follow` setting in recursive file copying; the designed behaviour is that it should allow you to determine if the master serves a symlink in a module as a symlink, or as the content of the file that the symlink points to.
The full details are here: https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12418 The short version is that toggling that value doesn't work right - it won't notice changes from "don't follow" to "follow". Our general feeling is that putting a symlink in a module, and expecting the same symlink to be created on the agent, is a bad strategy. It depends heavily on a whole lot of complex things, adds substantial complexity to the file serving code, and won't work on all platforms in a sensible fashion. That is a substantial feature to drop, though, so we wanted to gather some more information on how people use this capability and what y'all think about it. If folks would take a minute and fill in a brief survey about this, that would be great: https://docs.google.com/a/rimspace.net/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGE2R09HZ2tIdFFSdDhHQ3dQOHVGZlE6MQ We will be using the data from that form as one of the most significant parts of our decision, so while we welcome feedback by email, or on the ticket, adding the raw data to the survey is pretty valuable. Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any further feedback on this process, the survey, or any other "meta issue" around how we are managing this. This is, obviously, a new way to try and figure out what we should do, and we want to make sure that we catch any problems with it early. Thanks. -- Daniel Pittman ⎋ Puppet Labs Developer – http://puppetlabs.com ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
