[[!meta title="Puppet bugs that motivated me to migrate away and write cdist"]]

## Introduction

For a long time I had a "secret list" of bugs that made me going crazy when
using puppet. But as I get more often asked ***Why have you writen
[[cdist|software/cdist]] and migrate away from puppet?***, I'm publishing the
list here, to give it a real home.

Early clearification, before rumors come up and bad blood created:
This is **not intented** to be a **bash puppet page**, but a
**I don't need to re-explain why I moved away from puppet and
have written cdist page**.

## Bugs

This is the initial short list, explanations may follow.

 * [puppet parser order dependant](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1565)
 * [cannot get return code of command - 1 year idle](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2538)
 * [local puppet != remote - untreated ](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3767)
 * [service stopping broken in debian - 8 months idle](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3936)
 * [${var} does not work everywhere - 9 months idle, > 1 year old](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3987)
 * ["magic var" only in some scopes - rejected](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3997)
 * [mount/autorequire - 5 months idle](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3998)
 * [old bug marked as duplicate of a new one](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3998)
 * [implicit design change - rejected](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4220)
 * [ssl cert not submitted to new master -  5 months idle](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4680)
 * [reusing defines not possible - rejected](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4715)
 * [param a=$undef broken - fixed](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4780)
 * [templating broken - fixed](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4805)
 * [fixed symptom, not source](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4922)
 * [not important enough, scheduled from 2.6.5 to 2.6.x](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4922)
 * ["" is not a valid resource reference](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5048)
 * [puppet changes the errror message on 2nd run](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6209)
 * [weired error messages](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6210)

## Contact

If you think there's something wrong here and want to discuss the listing, do not hesitate
to discuss it on one of the 
[cdist communication channels (irc, mailing list, mail)|software/cdist].

[[!tag config sysadmin localch unix]]