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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/puppet/type/file.rb | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb index 922550bd8..6038aa50b 100644 --- a/lib/puppet/type/file.rb +++ b/lib/puppet/type/file.rb @@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ module Puppet def initialize(hash) # Store a copy of the arguments for later. - tmphash = hash.to_hash + @original_arguments = hash.to_hash # Used for caching clients @clients = {} @@ -461,9 +461,19 @@ module Puppet def newchild(path) full_path = File.join(self[:path], path) - # the right-side hash wins in the merge. - options = to_hash.merge(:path => full_path, :implicit => true).reject { |param, value| value.nil? } - [:parent, :recurse, :target].each do |param| + # Add some new values to our original arguments -- these are the ones + # set at initialization. We specifically want to exclude any param + # values set by the :source property or any default values. + # LAK:NOTE This is kind of silly, because the whole point here is that + # the values set at initialization should live as long as the resource + # but values set by default or by :source should only live for the transaction + # or so. Unfortunately, we don't have a straightforward way to manage + # the different lifetimes of this data, so we kludge it like this. + # The right-side hash wins in the merge. + options = @original_arguments.merge(:path => full_path, :implicit => true).reject { |param, value| value.nil? } + + # These should never be passed to our children. + [:parent, :ensure, :recurse, :target].each do |param| options.delete(param) if options.include?(param) end |