Fix remote file functional tests for ruby < 1.9.3

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/spec/functional/resource/remote_file_spec.rb b/spec/functional/resource/remote_file_spec.rb
index 4a8b683f1b..57a5321ea2 100644
--- a/spec/functional/resource/remote_file_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/functional/resource/remote_file_spec.rb
@@ -46,9 +46,18 @@ describe Chef::Resource::RemoteFile do
   end
 
   let(:default_mode) do
+    # TODO: Lots of ugly here :(
+    # RemoteFile uses FileUtils.cp. FileUtils does a copy by opening the
+    # destination file and writing to it. Before 1.9.3, it does not preserve
+    # the mode of the copied file. In 1.9.3 and after, it does. So we have to
+    # figure out what the default mode ought to be via heuristic.
+
     t = Tempfile.new("get-the-mode")
-    m = t.stat.mode
+    path = t.path
+    path_2 = t.path + "fileutils-mode-test"
+    FileUtils.cp(path, path_2)
     t.close
+    m = File.stat(path_2).mode
     (07777 & m).to_s(8)
   end