[Puppet-dev] #395: Files in non-existent directories cause execution to halt

#395: Files in non-existent directories cause execution to halt
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 Reporter:  mpalmer  |       Owner:  luke
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:      
Component:  types    |     Version:      
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:      
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 (currently running svn2013)

 If I try to copy a file into a directory which doesn't exist at the
 beginning of the Puppet execution run, I get an error like this:

 {{{
 err: Could not apply complete configuration: Could not retrieve object
 '/usr/share/ruby-snmpd/plugins/last_puppet_run.rb' of type
 'Puppet::Type::File' at /etc/puppet/manifests/classes/snmp_enabled.pp:36
 }}}

 and the manifest stops running.  The real problem is that the directory
 that I want to copy the file into is part of a package, and that package
 is depended on by this file, like so:

 {{{
 file { "/usr/share/ruby-snmpd/plugins/last_puppet_run.rb":
   content =>
 template("/etc/puppet/config/classes/snmp_enabled/last_puppet_run.rb",
   require => package["ruby-snmpd"]
 }