Some additional debug info, not sure if it’ll help:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/file_serving/fileset.rb:79:in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/type/tidy.rb:251:innew' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/type/tidy.rb:251:in generate' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/transaction.rb:347:insend' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/transaction.rb:347:in generate_additional_resources' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/transaction.rb:375:ingenerate' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/transaction.rb:374:in each' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/transaction.rb:374:ingenerate' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/transaction.rb:490:in prepare' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/transaction.rb:282:inevaluate' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/resource/catalog.rb:142:in apply' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/configurer.rb:152:inrun' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/util.rb:177:in benchmark' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:308:inrealtime' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/util.rb:176:in benchmark' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/configurer.rb:151:inrun' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/agent.rb:53:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/agent/locker.rb:21:inlock' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/agent.rb:53:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:230:insynchronize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/agent.rb:53:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/agent.rb:130:inwith_client' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/agent.rb:51:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/application/puppetd.rb:103:inonetime' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:226:in send' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:226:inrun_command' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:217:in run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:306:inexit_on_fail' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/puppet/application.rb:217:in `run' /usr/sbin/puppetd:159 err: //cust::webserver/Cust::Webserver::Tomcatsite[app]/Kbp-tomcat::Project[app]/Tidy[/srv/tomcat/app/logs/]: Failed to generate additional resources using ‘generate’: Fileset recurse parameter must not be a number anymore, please use recurselimit

Tim Stoop wrote:

Hi,

I use the tidy resource in a lot of places and since 0.25.1 (skipped 0.25.0 so I don’t know) it’s giving me the following error:

err: //cust::webserver/Cust::Webserver::Tomcatsite[app]/Kbp-tomcat::Project[app]/Tidy[/srv/tomcat/app/logs/]: Failed to generate additional resources using ‘generate’: Fileset recurse parameter must not be a number anymore, please use recurselimit

The tidy resource is very simple:

tidy { “/srv/tomcat/app/logs/”: matches => “*”, age => “4w”, recurse => 1, }

It’s initiated (is that the right term?) form within a define that actually also sets the Tomcat instance up and put some other files (munin plugins) in place. This worked in 0.24.8. Please let me know if you need additional information.

Yes, this is my bad :–( It appeared in #1469. Markus: I think we need an integration test for all users of FileSet…

Markus Roberts wrote:

I’m directing this to James because he accepted the ticket, but anyone else who knows is free to answer.

This looks like a simple deprecation issue (not a bug). We used to permit numeric values for recurse, but that was problematic as there was actually more information required, so it was split into two parameters (recurse and recurselimit) with recurselimit being the numeric part and recurse determining where (master, server, neither or both). The error message appears to say as much: use recurselimit instead of recurse.

What am I missing?

— Markus

You’re missing that tidy doesn’t support both parameters, it only supports “recurse”. Using recurse with a number in FileSet is not supported anymore. To make it short: when I introduced the parameter separation, I modified the FileSet api, and put the deprecation in the File type. I forgot that there were some other use of FileSet, especially in tidy.

So, we have 2 options:

fix tidy to correctly use FileSet¶

enhance tidy to use both parameters: recurse, and recurselimit¶

I think 1) is better as 2) doesn’t add any value (there’s no need to have a recurse value different than true/false).

The patch fixes the problem for me. Thanks for the effort!