filebucket --local should have default bucket matching "apply"

[Martin Langhoff]

Background I am using puppet via direct invokation of puppet apply
path/to/manifest.pp -- no puppet server involved. Puppet is 3.1.1 on
RHEL6.x and CentOS6.x boxes.

I needed to study a file change, coming from a concat. Looking at the
report, I had the hash. This did not work:

# puppet filebucket get --local d49537fd4cd4a5e588b2775f25f511e6
Error: Could not run: File not found

instead, this does work (but how would one know the right bucket?):

# puppet filebucket get -b /var/lib/puppet/clientbucket --local
d49537fd4cd4a5e588b2775f25f511e6

OTOH, this Just Works:

# puppet filebucket backup --local /etc/motd
/etc/motd: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

# puppet filebucket get --local d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

However, looking into /var/lib/puppet is is clear that they use
different buckets. Using puppet apply will use
/var/lib/puppet/clientbucket , while using puppet filebucket --local
will use /var/lib/puppet/bucket .

In my case I used strace and find to figure out where things were
going, which is hardly recommendable.

cheers,


m
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[Felix Frank]

Hi,

fwiw, I still use quite a lot of 2.7, when there was a standalone
filebucket (not puppet filebucket). This defaulted to clientbucket just
fine.

I suspect you can solve this by adding a [filebucket] section to
puppet.conf. Although I'm not sure whether this should be considered a
workaround rather than a solution.

Have you taken a look at jira to see if there is a ticket for this?
Otherwise, you may want to open one, see if the maintainers recognize
this as a problem or if there is a larger idea behind the design.

Regards,
Felix