Fix #1757 Change file mode representation to octal

This patch changes the internal representation of a file's mode to a
string instead of an integer. This simplifies the problem of displaying
the value consistently throughout all of puppet.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/language/snippets.rb b/test/language/snippets.rb
index 51c5e23fe..a10e8e870 100755
--- a/test/language/snippets.rb
+++ b/test/language/snippets.rb
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ class TestSnippets < Test::Unit::TestCase
   end
 
   def assert_mode_equal(mode, path)
+    if mode.is_a? Integer
+      mode = mode.to_s(8)
+    end
     unless file = @catalog.resource(:file, path)
       raise "Could not find file #{path}"
     end
diff --git a/test/ral/type/file.rb b/test/ral/type/file.rb
index 6322529cf..386c3ca1b 100755
--- a/test/ral/type/file.rb
+++ b/test/ral/type/file.rb
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ class TestFile < Test::Unit::TestCase
         
       :mode => "0777"
     )
-    assert_equal(0777, file.should(:mode), "Mode did not get set correctly")
+    assert_equal("777", file.should(:mode), "Mode did not get set correctly")
     assert_apply(file)
     assert_equal(0777, File.stat(path).mode & 007777, "file mode is incorrect")
     File.unlink(path)