Bug in the shipped version of Puppet; update box to latest Puppet

[naftulikay]

In the latest version of the 14.04 Ubuntu box, Puppet 3 has some known bugs where it doesn't like file() syntax:

# file exists at modules/nginx/files/nginx.conf
file { 'nginx_config':
    # ...
    content => file('nginx/nginx.conf')
}

The above code fails, while the below code doesn't:

# template exists at modules/nginx/templates/nginx.conf
file { 'nginx_config':
    # ...
    content => template('nginx/nginx.conf')
}

Simply updating Puppet to the latest version fixes this bug. On all of my boxes based on the 14.04 box, I have to run a shell provisioner which updates to the latest Puppet before running the Puppet provisioner to avoid this problem.