I've had this workaround in my puppet master module for ages. If any of the manifests change, then the puppet run will touch site.pp so the puppet master knows that the manifests need to be re-evaluated. This was to work around the puppet master not noticing that included manifests were changed. Question is: do I still need to do this with recen…

repo.pp

exec {
  'touch-site-pp':
    command => '/usr/bin/touch /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp',
    unless  => '/usr/bin/test -z $(/usr/bin/find /etc/puppet/manifests/ -follow -newer /etc/puppet/manifests/site.pp)',
    require => File['/etc/puppet/manifests'];
}