Timezone processing is triggered on every update on Debian

[andvgal]

Please consider configuration and it results:

    class { '::timezone':
        timezone => 'UTC',
    }

Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]/content: 
--- /etc/timezone       2015-05-20 14:33:55.475440368 +0000
+++ /tmp/puppet-file20150522-18306-1exjari      2015-05-22 11:41:13.662396982 +0000
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-Etc/UTC
+# Managed by puppet - do not modify
+UTC

Info: Computing checksum on file /etc/timezone
Info: FileBucket got a duplicate file {md5}4f24b133ba38d8fd565168742c9aedeb
Info: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]: Filebucketed /etc/timezone to puppet with sum 4f24b133ba38d8fd565168742c9aedeb
Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]/content: content changed '{md5}4f24b133ba38d8fd565168742c9aedeb' to '{md5}ee3a680deca3b3a0f7667a1a70b093ff'
Info: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[update_timezone]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/Exec[update_timezone]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events
Info: Computing checksum on file /etc/localtime
Info: FileBucket got a duplicate file {md5}c79354b8dbee09e62bbc3fb544853283
Info: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/localtime]: Filebucketed /etc/localtime to puppet with sum c79354b8dbee09e62bbc3fb544853283
Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/localtime]/ensure: ensure changed 'file' to 'link'

Please note UTC -> Etc/UTC change and "file" to "link" change in /etc/localtime.

The temporary solution below works as expected:

    file { '/etc/timezone':
        owner   => 'root',
        group   => 'root',
        mode    => '0644',
        content => "Etc/UTC\n",
    }

    exec { '/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata':
        creates => '/etc/localtime',
        subscribe => File['/etc/timezone'],
        refreshonly => true
    }
}

Result:

root@TESTHOST:~# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Current default time zone: 'Etc/Universal'
Local time is now:      Fri May 22 11:49:20 UTC 2015.
Universal Time is now:  Fri May 22 11:49:20 UTC 2015.

root@TESTHOST:~# dpkg-reconfigure 
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: please specify a package to reconfigure
root@TESTHOST:~# puppet agent --test
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for TESTHOST
Info: Applying configuration version '1432295346'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Basesystem::Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]/content: 
--- /etc/timezone       2015-05-22 11:49:20.508924199 +0000
+++ /tmp/puppet-file20150522-26087-pxd7dq       2015-05-22 11:49:31.733351358 +0000
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Etc/Universal
+Etc/UTC

Info: Computing checksum on file /etc/timezone
Info: /Stage[main]/Basesystem::Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]: Filebucketed /etc/timezone to puppet with sum dbb7e95c52a24460cc98a1e41d9f94fe
Notice: /Stage[main]/Basesystem::Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]/content: content changed '{md5}dbb7e95c52a24460cc98a1e41d9f94fe' to '{md5}4f24b133ba38d8fd565168742c9aedeb'
Info: /Stage[main]/Basesystem::Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Basesystem::Timezone/Exec[/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 events
Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.68 seconds
root@TESTHOST:~# puppet agent --test
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Loading facts
Info: Caching catalog for TESTHOST
Info: Applying configuration version '1432295346'
Notice: Finished catalog run in 0.57 seconds
root@TESTHOST:~#

Please consider adapting/integrating the logic for Debian.

[saz]

This issue should be resolved in the newest release and I'm not able to reproduce it.
Please feel free to reopen this issue, if it's not resolved for you.

[cs278]

This is still an issue with 3.3.0. The problem is the way this module configures the timezone settings is not what Debian expects.

If you run through manual configuration of timezone using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata you find that /etc/timezone contains Etc/UTC and /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC.

When this module runs dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata Debian changes the files to match what I described above, so the next Puppet run sees a difference in /etc/timezone and changes everything back.

@saz To resolve this I believe under Debian UTC needs to be normalised to Etc/UTC. It might also be worth replicating the correct behaviour with regards to the localtime file.

To reproduce use the following echo UTC > /etc/timezone && dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata and then run Puppet with timezone => UTC.

[infragilis]

first off .. thanks for the mods .. im using a few :P whats the word on this one , same issue here

Linux puppet 3.13.0-57-generic #95-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 19 09:28:15 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

saz-timezone (v3.3.0)

[andvgal]

Debian way would be to use debconf-set-selections

[hboetes]

Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/Debconf[tzdata/Areas]/value: value changed 'Europe' to 'CEST'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]/content:
--- /etc/timezone 2018-06-18 15:05:52.492745126 +0200
+++ /root/.tmp/puppet-file20180618-8034-cq5soa 2018-06-18 15:06:06.032801809 +0200
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Europe/Vienna
+CEST

Info: Computing checksum on file /etc/timezone
Info: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]: Filebucketed /etc/timezone to puppet with sum 9b047fbf60efc3082d2fc1face949a53
Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]/content:
It's still happening.

Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]/content: content changed '{md5}9b047fbf60efc3082d2fc1face949a53' to '{md5}75ebc28513ccd21406969301e4b59c85'
Info: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/timezone]: Scheduling refresh of Exec[update_timezone]
Notice: /Stage[main]/Timezone/Exec[update_timezone]: Triggered 'refresh' from 1 event
Error: /Stage[main]/Timezone/File[/etc/localtime]: Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment development source(s) file:///usr/share/zoneinfo/CEST
Info: Class[Timezone]: Unscheduling all events on Class[Timezone]
Notice: Applied catalog in 3.75 seconds