Class[Nftables::Bridges]['bridgenames'] contains a Regexp value. It will be converted to the String '/^br.+/'

[traylenator]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 6.20.0

Noticed in our puppetserver logs:

2021-03-23T07:28:07.219+01:00 WARN  [qtp1376093148-42] [puppetserver] Puppet Class[Nftables::Bridges]['bridgenames'] contains a Regexp value. It will be converted to the String '/^br.+/'

[duritong]

I don't understand the issue. It should be a regexp and it also is:

puppet-nftables/manifests/bridges.pp

Line 5 in 18b211e

Regexp $bridgenames = /^br.+/

Why is it complaining?

[traylenator]

Agree , i can't see what might be wrong if anything.

[traylenator]

https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-7735 gives some insight.

[duritong]

Can't reproduce it with the example:

# puppet apply foo.pp
Notice: Scope(Class[main]): Regexp[/^.$/]
Notice: Scope(Class[Foo]): Regexp[/^.$/]
Notice: Compiled catalog for xyz in environment production in 0.02 seconds
Notice: Applied catalog in 0.30 seconds
# puppet --version
7.5.0

And I also don't see it in our puppetserver logs.

[traylenator]

@duritong that's with a Puppet 7 server you do not see message ? If so suggest we ignore.

[traylenator]

Ignoring as apparently not present in newer puppets.