I ran into a funny problem updating my rnelson0/certs puppet module today. I tried to use puppet-blacksmith to create and push a new build to the Forge. It continually failed with a strange error:

[rnelson0@build02 certs:master]$ be rake module:release
Cleaning for module build
Uploading to Puppet Forge rnelson0/certs
rake aborted!
Errno::ECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer

Well crap, that doesn’t make any sense! Let’s do a build manually and take a look at it:

[rnelson0@build02 certs:master]$ puppet module build
Notice: Building /home/rnelson0/modules/certs for release
Module built: /home/rnelson0/modules/certs/pkg/rnelson0-certs-0.7.0.tar.gz
[rnelson0@build02 certs:master]$ ls -lh pkg
total 21M
drwxrwxr-x. 6 rnelson0 rnelson0 4.0K Nov 15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rnelson0 rnelson0  21M Nov 15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0.tar.gz
[rnelson0@build02 certs:master]$ tar tzvf pkg/rnelson0-certs-0.7.0.tar.gz | more
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0 0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0 0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/tests/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0 509 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/tests/init.pp
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0 911468 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/checksums.json
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/manifests/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0    310 2015-10-24 17:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/manifests/init.pp
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   2208 2015-10-24 17:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/manifests/vhost.pp
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/classes/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0    141 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/classes/init_spec.rb
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/defines/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   1433 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/defines/vhost_spec.rb
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0     52 2015-10-24 17:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/spec_helper.rb
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/fixtures/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/fixtures/manifests/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/fixtures/modules/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   1409 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/Rakefile
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   2208 2015-11-15 02:58 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/README.md
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/vendor/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0      0 2015-11-15 04:16 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/vendor/ruby/

Can you see the problem? The vendor directory used by bundler is part of the package. That’s not right! It’s causing the forge connection to timeout because of the size or transmission time. Plus, no-one’s going to download a 21M module. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to fix this. In addition to the .gitignore that we use to prevent files from being made part of the git repository, we also need a .pmtignore, but we only need to exclude the vendors path:

[rnelson0@build02 certs:master]$ cat > .pmtignore
vendor/
[rnelson0@build02 certs:master±]$ puppet module build
Notice: Building /home/rnelson0/modules/certs for release
Module built: /home/rnelson0/modules/certs/pkg/rnelson0-certs-0.7.0.tar.gz
[rnelson0@build02 certs:master±]$ ls -lh pkg
total 12K
drwxrwxr-x. 5 rnelson0 rnelson0 4.0K Nov 15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0
-rw-rw-r--. 1 rnelson0 rnelson0 7.0K Nov 15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0.tar.gz
[rnelson0@build02 certs:master±]$ tar tzvf pkg/rnelson0-certs-0.7.0.tar.gz
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0 0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0 0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/tests/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0 509 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/tests/init.pp
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0 631 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/checksums.json
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0 10143 2015-11-15 03:42 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/Gemfile.lock
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0     0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/manifests/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   310 2015-10-24 17:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/manifests/init.pp
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0  2208 2015-10-24 17:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/manifests/vhost.pp
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0     0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0     0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/classes/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   141 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/classes/init_spec.rb
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0     0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/defines/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0  1433 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/defines/vhost_spec.rb
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0    52 2015-10-24 17:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/spec_helper.rb
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0     0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/fixtures/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0     0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/fixtures/manifests/
drwxrwxr-x rnelson0/rnelson0     0 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/spec/fixtures/modules/
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0  1409 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/Rakefile
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0  2208 2015-11-15 02:58 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/README.md
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   861 2015-10-24 19:27 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/Gemfile
-rw-rw-r-- rnelson0/rnelson0   506 2015-11-15 04:23 rnelson0-certs-0.7.0/metadata.json
[rnelson0@build02 certs:master±]$

I’m going to submit a PR against puppet-module-skeleton to get that file added for the future (PR95).