[dev.icinga.com #12980] Symlinks in modules are not allowed in puppet modules

[icinga-migration]

This issue has been migrated from Redmine: https://dev.icinga.com/issues/12980

Created by tontonitch on 2016-10-25 11:51:16 +00:00

Assignee: bsheqa
Status: Closed (closed on 2016-11-10 09:57:10 +00:00)
Target Version: v0.6.0
Last Update: 2016-11-10 09:57:10 +00:00 (in Redmine)

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Hi,

Trying to build the puppet module using a clone of the current git mast branch , I face the following error messages:

[root@rhtestsrv1-d modules]# puppet module build icinga2
Warning: Symlinks in modules are unsupported. Please investigate symlink serverspec/spec/i2debian7puppet4/plattform_independent_spec.rb -> serverspec/spec/plattform_independent_spec.rb.
Warning: Symlinks in modules are unsupported. Please investigate symlink serverspec/spec/i2debian8puppet4/plattform_independent_spec.rb -> serverspec/spec/plattform_independent_spec.rb.
Warning: Symlinks in modules are unsupported. Please investigate symlink serverspec/spec/i2rhel6puppet4/plattform_independent_spec.rb -> serverspec/spec/plattform_independent_spec.rb.
Warning: Symlinks in modules are unsupported. Please investigate symlink serverspec/spec/i2rhel7puppet4/plattform_independent_spec.rb -> serverspec/spec/plattform_independent_spec.rb.
Warning: Symlinks in modules are unsupported. Please investigate symlink serverspec/spec/i2ubuntu14puppet4/plattform_independent_spec.rb -> serverspec/spec/plattform_independent_spec.rb.
Warning: Symlinks in modules are unsupported. Please investigate symlink serverspec/spec/i2ubuntu16puppet4/plattform_independent_spec.rb -> serverspec/spec/plattform_independent_spec.rb.
Error: Found symlinks. Symlinks in modules are not allowed, please remove them.
Error: Try 'puppet help module build' for usage

So apparently "Symlinks in modules are not allowed".

Best regards,
Yannick
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[icinga-migration]

Updated by bsheqa on 2016-11-08 09:41:30 +00:00

• Target Version set to v0.6.0

[icinga-migration]

Updated by bsheqa on 2016-11-10 09:57:10 +00:00

• Status changed from New to Closed
• Assigned to set to bsheqa
• Done % changed from 0 to 100

To solve this we have two options:

• Ignore files via .gitignore or .pmtignore
• Create regular files out of symlinks

I decided to create regular files and remove the symlinks, even if we have now the same content in multiple files. I don't want to ignore the files in builds.