Puppet

Run the following manifest:

    node default
    {
    file {
        "/tmp/testdir":
        ensure => directory,
        recurse => true, purge => true;
        "/tmp/testdir/foo":
        content => "FOO!\n";
    }
    }

Works as it should. Now, manually create two extra files:

    # touch /tmp/testdir/foo2 /tmp/testdir/bar

and run the above manifest again. It only removes the “bar” file. This seems true for any “stray” file which starts with the same prefix as a file that is managed by the manifests.

This works in 0.24.8, but is broken in 0.25.1. I’ll try to bisect it closer tomorrow, but I don’t have more time tonight.

This could be pretty bad. I was building up my iptables rules from file fragments, and when I removed one rule from my Puppet manifests, the corresponding file wasn’t removed, and was thus left in the total. Luckily I noticed it on a test system…