Jira (PUP-10969) The yum provider gets confused by virtual provides

[John Bollinger (Jira)]

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John Bollinger created an issue   Puppet / PUP-10969 The yum provider gets confused by virtual provides Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 6.17.0, PUP 7.5.0 Assignee: Unassigned Components: Types and Providers Created: 2021/03/18 11:51 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: John Bollinger Puppet Version: 7.5 Puppet Server Version: 7.1.0 OS Name/Version: CentOS 7.8 Puppet does not install packages to update virtual provides of other packages.  This appears to be approximately the opposite of the situation described in PUP-10798. Desired Behavior: Puppet should ensure that the latest available version of the requested package is installed. Actual Behavior: Puppet denies that there is an update available. In the specific case where I hit this issue, the target nodes have package python-pandas-0.17.1-1.el7.x86_64 installed, and it declares a virtual provide for python2-pandas, version 0.17.1-1.el7.  In my local repository, I have a package python2-pandas-0.24.2-1.el7.myorg.x86_64, which I want Puppet to install. Under those circumstances, when I then ask yum directly to either install or update package python2-pandas, it offers the version 0.24.2 package (and because of obsoletes processing, this replaces the other).  If I try to have Puppet do the same, however, it claims that the latest available version is already installed. The Puppet resource I am applying is  package { 'python2-pandas': ensure => 'latest' }  The debug log has this to say:  Debug: Executing: '/bin/rpm -q python2-pandas --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n' Debug: Executing: '/bin/rpm -q python2-pandas --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}\n --whatprovides' Debug: Package[python2-pandas](provider=yum): Yum didn't find updates, current version (0.17.1-1.el7) is the latest Contrast with the (partial) output of yum update python2-pandas: ====================================================================== Package           Arch      Version               Repository    Size ====================================================================== Installing:  python2-pandas   x86_64    0.24.2-1.el7.myorg    myrepo        10 M      replacing python-pandas.x86_64 0.17.1-1.el7 [...] ===================================================================== Install 2 Packages (+4 Dependent packages)   Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.391586.1616093466000.169779.1616093520047%40Atlassian.JIRA.