Jira (PUP-11031) (spike) study long file names/long file paths support in 3rd party software and puppet

[Ciprian Badescu (Jira)]

Ciprian Badescu created an issue

Puppet / PUP-11031 (spike) study long file names/long file paths support in 3rd party software and puppet Issue Type: Task Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2021/04/28 2:41 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Ciprian Badescu 3rd party items to check: FyleSystem/OS limitations for filenames (Windows/AIX/Solaris/OSX) C++/BOOST limitations (Facter3) (used in custom/external facts) Ruby limitations (eg: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12551) TAR implementation limitations (puppet uses the available `tar` command on the box to unpack the module, we need to support all tar version available on workstation where puppet is running) For reference, similar rubygem issue (open on 2015): https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/1376)   Internal code paths to check: Install LFN module in master/agent Pluginsync LFN (support for file transfer protocol used) File resource support for LFN Above steps work on all supported OSs(Windows/Solaris/AIX/EL5/etc.) on all supported Ruby versions R10K/code manager support for LFN Facter3/Facter4 (to load external/custom facts from modules) Add Comment

This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.13.2#813002-sha1:c495a97)