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I can pull this in as part of the puppet 3 work I'm doing. Can you provide a link to the puppet-dev email?

Hi,

I am in the process of getting Foreman to work with puppet3 on Debian squeeze.

For this particular problem, here is what I did:

/usr/share/foreman-proxy/lib/proxy/puppet/environment.rb => replace "Puppet.parse_config" with:
if $isLoaded == nil
puts "loading"
Puppet.settings.initialize_global_settings(['--config=/etc/puppet/puppet.conf'])
$isLoaded = true
else
puts "already loaded"
end

also add the snippet inside the load method of /usr/share/foreman/lib/foreman/default_settings/loader.rb

Last thing is to remove Puppet.parse.

Hope it works for you.

This is the puppet-dev thread: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-dev/Yk0WC1JZCg8/discussion

Chris Price's post there is valuable because he suggests that the entry point `Puppet.initialize_settings` is the simplest / most accessible method to call, but it implies a `:user` run-mode. If that's not what you want (because that would skip settings in the `[master]` section of the config file), my suggestion from tracing through this yesterday would be to do :

Puppet.settings.initialize_global_settings(['--config=/etc/puppet/puppet.conf', '--run_mode=master'])

The puppet platform devs are planning to get this cleaned up and documented for 3.1; we are sorry for the churn on it but several band-aid attempts caused bad follow-on effects so it's getting a properly engineered solution.

After applying the change on Puppet.parse_config to

Puppet.settings.initialize_global_settings(Puppet[:config]) unless Puppet.settings.global_defaults_initialized?

had to comment out
#Puppet.clear