I tried two of the proposed fixes in github, but neither of them worked. I
came up with the following workaround (kludge) that happens to work because
our proxy caches the authentication for a little while. Maybe it will help
someone out there who is brought here by the magic Google machine:
Here's a patch to make puppet do integer comparison instead of string
comparison if both strings are valid integers:
--- OLD/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/augeas/augeas.rb 2013-09-19
14:09:52.0 -0400
+++ NEW/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/provider/augeas/augeas.rb 2013-09-19
16:23:48.0