Path not fully qualified (Windows) about puppet-staging HOT 4 CLOSED

TLDR, not much value unless you use windows as an unit test platform.

See example: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-archive/blob/master/spec/unit/puppet/type/archive_spec.rb#L29-L58

However be aware this basically skips the windows test on Linux. It does not have the capability to exercise the two different path (i.e. travis.ci will only test linux).

Fundamentally it comes down to the method Puppet::Util.absolute_path? (since that method only cares about what OS you are running, not that rspec-puppet is trying to simulate windows via some facts). It's been a while since I looked, but maybe puppet spec tests provide some hints on how they simulate the two different platforms.

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Any update on this topic ? Solution or decent workaround ?

I'm interested in a way to solve the same issue for other puppet profiles & roles. As of now, I just commented it { is_expected.to compile } but a few issues went under the radar this way.

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I have discovered that this issue only occurs if I have relationship functions for a file resource or exec resource with a creates parameter in the spec test. E.g.

is_expected.to contain_Exec('working').that_comes_before('File[C:\Windows]')
is_expected.to contain_File('C:\Windows')

or

is_expected.to contain_Exec('working').that_comes_before('Exec[fails]')
is_expected.to contain_Exec('fails').with({"creates" => 'C:\Windows\mytestfile.txt'})

The above code will throw the issue, but simply having the below code will avoid the issue:

is_expected.to contain_Exec('working')
is_expected.to contain_File('C:\Windows')

or

is_expected.to contain_Exec('working')
is_expected.to contain_Exec('no longer failing').with({"creates" => 'C:\Windows\mytestfile.txt'})

Can anyone else duplicate this? Perhaps the root cause is in the relationship functions?

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This module is deprecated in favor of puppet-archive and as such won't receive any more updates.

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