puppetlabs/puppet — pull request #1476 by sodabrew (2013-02-14 00:22:24+00:00)
Title: Issue 7680: file resource with symlink source fails with checksum error

From http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7680#note-6

I have absolutely no idea if this is the right fix, but I would like to see a year-old bug resolved finally.