When using MRI 1.9.x the stdlib spec helper does not invoke because
Puppet.settings.private_methods returns symbols instead of strings.
This is a problem because we need to set default configuration settings
like Puppet[:vardir] when using the compiler.
This patch fixes the issue by simply checking the Puppet version. This
seems a better choice than rescuing NoMethodError since the method might
be renamed or removed in the future.
Without this patch the spec_helper sends a message named
initialize_everything_for_tests to Puppet.settings. This is a problem
because Puppet 2.6.x does not have this method, only Puppet 2.7.x and
Puppet master have this method at this time and we're getting false
positive test failures.
This patch fixes the problem by looking before we leap. We test if the
private method exists before calling it. This works with Ruby 1.8.5 and
onwards and Puppet 2.6, 2.7 and master.
This should fix all of the failures I've caused in Jenkins today.
Without this patch every rspec run prints out the directory of the
spec_helper script.
I think this was just a debugging line or whatever that accidentally got
added.
The behavior without this patch applied is that the rspec tests do not
function with Puppet 2.6.4. This patch back-ports some fixes introduced
in Puppet 2.7.x to the spec_helper to make the tests work as expected on
Puppet 2.6.4.
The specific patches back ported from Puppet are:
* 2ae88067 (Puppet::Util::ExecutionStub.reset)
* cf183534 (Switched spec tests to use a class rather than Array as the
log destination.)
Without this patch applied, the stdlib module does not provide a
root_home fact. This fact is necessary to easily determine the root
account home directory on platforms Puppet is supported on.
The major variations this fact address are:
---
solaris: /
linux: /root
macosx: /var/root
Spec tests using rspec have been provided as well to cover these three
general cases. Windows tests are marked as pending.
It was decided that maintaining puppetlabs-functions and
puppetlabs-stdlib was duplication as both are trying to
achieve the same goal.
This patch provides a merge of the puppetlabs-functions
into the puppetlabs-stdlib repository, with history
preservation.
The following conflicts were found and resolved:
* LICENSE file from functions was used as it aligns with
ASL usage instructions and contains relevant copyright
information:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
* Used spec_helper.rb from functions - this is what
Puppet core uses and doesn't break tests.
* Merged .gitignore and spec.opts options.
