Fixing the rest of #705, except for the env stuff, which I was not able to reproduce.

git-svn-id: https://reductivelabs.com/svn/puppet/trunk@2697 980ebf18-57e1-0310-9a29-db15c13687c0

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/puppet/util/fileparsing.rb b/lib/puppet/util/fileparsing.rb
index 545a54071..8e69681cf 100644
--- a/lib/puppet/util/fileparsing.rb
+++ b/lib/puppet/util/fileparsing.rb
@@ -168,8 +168,12 @@ module Puppet::Util::FileParsing
             if match = regex.match(line)
                 fields = []
                 ret = {}
-                record.fields.zip(match.captures).each do |f, v|
-                    ret[f] = v
+                record.fields.zip(match.captures).each do |field, value|
+                    if value == record.absent 
+                        ret[field] = :absent
+                    else
+                        ret[field] = value
+                    end
                 end
             else
                 nil