puppet (3.7.0) module install fails with a specific module that worked on puppet 3.6.2

[Sebastian Otaegui]

Hello, 

I was able to do puppet module install gini/archive before and now with version 3.7.0 I am getting the following:

# puppet module install gini/archive

Notice: Preparing to install into /Users/otaeguis/.puppet/modules ...

Notice: Downloading from https://forgeapi.puppetlabs.com ...

Error: No such file or directory @ realpath_rec - /Users/otaeguis/.puppet/var/puppet-module/cache/tmp-unpacker20140905-10619-xbbs56/gini-archive-0.2.0/files

Error: Try 'puppet help module install' for usage

Any help on how to workaround this? 

Regards

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[Anderson Mills]

Sebastian,

So, this is caused by symlinks in this module which don't have a corresponding directory or file. Puppet 3.7.0 now checks for symlinks, and unfortunately has a File Not Found error if the symlinks don't have a corresponding target.

My only suggestion for working around this is to download the module as a tarball, then untar it, make the expected dirs (files, lib, and templates) and then re-tar and install from your new tarball. Here're the commands I used...

 tar xzvf gini-archive-0.2.0.tar.gz

 cd gini-archive-0.2.0/

 mkdir files templates lib

 cd ..

 rm gini-archive-0.2.0.tar.gz

 tar cvzf gini-archive-0.2.0.tar.gz gini-archive-0.2.0

 rm -r gini-archive-0.2.0

 puppet module install gini-archive-0.2.0.tar.gz

[Brandon High]

We've filed an issue (https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-3191) to track this, I have a proposed solution linked in the issue.

[Sebastian Otaegui]

Damn, that really sucks because I am using this module from my rspec-puppet tests, so this module gets installed from the fixtures.  

oh well.

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[Anderson Mills]

There is a fix for this in a PR associated with Puppet Labs jira ticket PUP-3191 (https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-3191), which should be included in Puppet 3.7.1.

The repo of this module doesn't seem to include those bad symlinks: https://github.com/gini/puppet-archive

so, maybe the author would be willing to republish?