(QENG-989) install_puppet_from_gem fails on Solaris

Trying to install puppet from gems would fail on both Solaris 10 and
11. Solaris 10 now has pkgutil and gem symlinked (ln -s) to /usr/bin.
Both Solaris versions have puppet-related gems symlinked to /usr/bin
after installation. This is to avoid clobbering the PATH.
Merge pull request #440 from colinPL/qeng989_solaris_gem

(QENG-989) install_puppet_from_gem fails on Solaris
(QENG-1128) Beaker no long auto recursively scps directories...

to systems under test

- issue was :recursive variable was being carried over successive calls
  to scp_to.  To prevent this, just set it based upon the file type
  being called