Using the kind of technique as documented here: http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#i-want-to-manage-a-directory-and-purge-its-contents

I am seeing some regression with 0.25.0:

Manifest:

        File{   
                owner           => "root",
                group           => "root",
                mode            => "0644",
        }


        file{"/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet":
                content         => "Hello World\n"
        }

        file{"/tmp/special.d":
                ensure  => directory,
        }

        file{"/tmp/special.d/snippets":
                ensure          => directory,
                source          => "puppet://puppet/modules/puppet/empty",
                recurse         => true,
                purge           => true,
                force           => true,
                ignore          => ".svn",
        }

The first run works well, does what you’d expect:

info: Caching catalog for dev1.mydev.net
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d]/ensure: created
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets]/ensure: created
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/checksum: defined 'checksum' as '{md5}e59ff97941044f85df5297e1c302d260'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/content: defined 'content' as '{md5}e59ff97941044f85df5297e1c302d260'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/owner: defined 'owner' as 'root'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/group: defined 'group' as 'root'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/mode: defined 'mode' as '644'
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.25 seconds

Subsequent runs does this though:

info: Caching catalog for dev1.mydev.net
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d]/mode: mode changed '644' to '755'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets]/checksum: checksum changed '{mtime}Mon May 04 14:34:59 +0100 2009' to '{mtime}Mon May 04 14:39:18 +0100 2009'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets]/mode: mode changed '644' to '755'
notice: /File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/ensure: removed
warning: Got an event from invalid vertex File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/checksum: defined 'checksum' as '{md5}e59ff97941044f85df5297e1c302d260'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/content: defined 'content' as '{md5}e59ff97941044f85df5297e1c302d260'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/owner: defined 'owner' as 'root'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/group: defined 'group' as 'root'
notice: //Node[dev1.mydev.net]/File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet]/mode: defined 'mode' as '644'
notice: Finished catalog run in 0.25 seconds

There are a few problems here:

Shouldn’t it be leaving the directory modes alone? 0.24.x did the right thing and changed the modes for directories as you’d expect and didn’t in future runs try to fiddle with them

It then removes the File[/tmp/special.d/snippets/00_snippet] resource and creates it again

This isn’t right and is a big regression from 0.24.x for anyone who use snippets to construct files etc.