From c4a0aff2af47d48ca1b41110274ebb3879c4b758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabriel Filion <gabster@lelutin.ca>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:07:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Manage unattended-upgrades log directory

In some situations, the log directory for unattended-upgrades might not
exist. In those cases, packages will not get upgraded!

unattended-upgrades crashes with a python backtrace because the log dir
is not present.
---
 manifests/unattended_upgrades.pp | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/manifests/unattended_upgrades.pp b/manifests/unattended_upgrades.pp
index ffb5fad..52d7542 100644
--- a/manifests/unattended_upgrades.pp
+++ b/manifests/unattended_upgrades.pp
@@ -11,6 +11,16 @@ class apt::unattended_upgrades (
     ensure  => $ensure_version
   }
 
+  # For some reason, this directory is sometimes absent, which causes
+  # unattended-upgrades to crash.
+  file { '/var/log/unattended-upgrades':
+    ensure  => directory,
+    owner   => 'root',
+    group   => 0,
+    mode    => '0755',
+    require => Package['unattended-upgrades'],
+  }
+
   $file_content = $config_content ? {
     undef   => template($config_template),
     default => $config_content