Issue #3499 has been updated by Thomas Bellman. Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs more information
The issue is surely that your resource has its name set to "openssh-client", while the package that gets installed is named "openssh-clients" (note the missing plural s at the end). Since Puppet can't find any installed package named "openssh-client", it will rightly believe that the package you point to isn't installed. Puppet doesn't know what the package inside the RPM file your provide is actually named, but relies on you specifying a correct name. Try fixing your resource title and see if that helps. ---------------------------------------- Bug #3499: RPM provider keeps trying to install the same version over and over http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/3499 Author: Ashley Penney Status: Needs more information Priority: Normal Assigned to: Category: Target version: Affected version: 0.25.4 Keywords: rpm provider package Branch: I looked into the code but swiftly got lost and decided to just report it instead: package { "openssh-client": ensure => present, provider => rpm, source => "http://puppet/packages/openssh-clients-5.1p1-3.x86_64.rpm";, require => Package["openssh"], } Results in: err: //ssh::sftp/Package[openssh-client]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/bin/rpm -i --oldpackage http://puppet/packages/openssh-clients-5.1p1-3.x86_64.rpm' returned 1: package openssh-clients-5.1p1-3.x86_64 is already installed -sh-3.2# rpm -qa | grep openssh-cl openssh-clients-5.1p1-3 I suspect the issue here is that it is matching openssh-clients-5.1p1-3.x86_64 (including the .x86_64) against openssh-clients-5.1p1-3 and deciding that the package is uninstalled and trying to install it. I can't confirm this in the code but this is constantly annoying and causes my reporting to look a mess as it fails time and time again. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
