Format force tests

[willmeek]

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[tphoney]

Great work @WhatsARanjit !!

[johanfleury]

Hi.

For a reason I can't explain, this changes make Puppet fail with this message: Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: no parameter named 'format' at [...]/modules/concat/manifests/init.pp:94 on Concat_file[/etc/ssh/sshd_config] at [...]/modules/concat/manifests/init.pp:94 on node foo.

The call to concat can be found here: https://github.com/saz/puppet-ssh/blob/master/manifests/server/config.pp#L16.

Any idea of what could cause this error?

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Ok, I found something really strange: I removed every environment directories but the one with the latest concat, and the catalog compiled again.

This is not a concat bug then. Sorry for the noise.

[WhatsARanjit]

@johanfleury No worries. The concat defined type calls the concat_file native type. Likely the new manifest was deployed but an older version of the type was cached. You can force an update like this:

https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.2/environment_isolation.html#generate-types

[willmeek]

Thanks for reporting @johanfleury and @WhatsARanjit

This is a common problem when updating a module that changes parameters for a native provider (see the upstream Puppet Labs issue). Please try restarting the puppet master (and potentially any affected puppet agents) and try re-running puppet again.

Otherwise to reproduce this issue I would ask that you provide detail on the following Jira ticket: https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/MODULES-5802

In particular:

• Module and version ( as reported by puppet module list )
• Manifests used
• Puppet version
• Ruby Version
• Any applicable logs

When we have enough information to replicate this scenario, we can look to fix if necessary.

Thank you.