Earlier this week I did a portsupgrade(8) on my FreeBSD puppetmaster. After the upgrade was completed, puppet stopped working and was displaying these errors: err: /File: Failed to generate additional resources using ‘eval_generate’: No format match the given format name or mime-type (text/html) err: /File: Could not evaluate: No format match the given format...
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