Jira (PUP-7973) gem package provider doesn't match exact on windows

[Hunter (Hunner) Haugen (JIRA)]

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Hunter (Hunner) Haugen created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7973 gem package provider doesn't match exact on windows Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 5.2.0 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2017/09/21 11:40 AM Environment: windows 2008r2, puppet-agent 5.2.0 Priority: Normal Reporter: Hunter (Hunner) Haugen When calling the gemlist and gemsplit commands (https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/5.2.0/lib/puppet/provider/package/gem.rb#L22-L71) the provider attempts an exact match with ^ and $ however on windows only the $ is honored: C:\Program Files\Puppet Labs\Puppet\sys\ruby\bin>gem.bat list --remote ^pry$   *** REMOTE GEMS ***   awesome-pry (0.0.4) awesome_pry (0.0.1) better_errors-pry (1.0.2) debugger-pry (0.1.1) dontkillmypry (0.0.1) fog-pry (0.0.1) lemme-pry (0.5.0) middleman-pry (1.0.1) pry (0.11.0 ruby java, 0.10.2 i386-mingw32 i386-mswin32 x64-mingw32) rack-webconsole-pry (0.1.9) rails-console-pry (0.0.5) rails-pry (0.0.1) ruby-debug-pry (0.0.3) spry (0.0.2) super-pry (0.1.1) web-console-pry (0.2.1) If instead we use \A and \z then it functions as expected: C:\Program Files\Puppet Labs\Puppet\sys\ruby\bin>gem.bat list --remote \Apry\z   *** REMOTE GEMS ***   pry (0.11.0 ruby java, 0.10.2 i386-mingw32 i386-mswin32 x64-mingw32) Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.