Issue #4953 has been updated by Nigel Kersten.

What causes the list of valid patterns to change? Is it likely to happen during 
a Puppet run?

I'm wondering whether we can prefetch the list of patterns once per Puppet run 
rather than checking on every package resource.
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Feature #4953: Zypper Provider should support Patterns
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/4953

Author: Daniel Grafe
Status: Needs more information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Nigel Kersten
Category: package
Target version: 
Affected version: 2.6.0
Keywords: 
Branch: 


SUSE defines software package lists called patterns. These patterns are 
combining related packages to useful software collections. For instance, the 
pattern "Basis-Devel" would give you the autotools, gcc, kernel sources etc...

Zypper can be used to install all packages from these lists by installing the 
pattern when setting the type explicitely to pattern. For example: zypper 
install -t pattern Basis-Devel

When using the zypper provider in puppet it would be nice to be able to install 
these patterns. Please find attached our quick modification of the provider. It 
will detect if the given name identifies a pattern or a package and will call 
zypper with the appropriate flags.


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