Issue #11450 has been updated by Daniel Pittman.

Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs More Information
Assignee set to Daniel Pittman

Stefan Schulte wrote:
> Is there a difference between an absent package (never installed or removed) 
> and a purged package? Because in the described case the yum provider will 
> return an is-value of :absent. Because the desired value is :purged puppet 
> treat the resource as not-in-sync so removes the package again.
> 
> The dpkg package provider for example seems to return :purged for a package 
> that is not installed, so it works on debian.
> 
> I guess we should either
> 
> * return an is value of :purged for an absent package
> * modify insync so a value of :absent is treated as insync with a desired 
> value of :purged

If that is the root cause of the problem - and `puppet resource package foo` 
should tell you what Puppet extracts - then the later is the "right" solution, 
albeit not necessarily trivial since it needs to vary by provider in matching.

Brett, can you confirm by having an `ensure => purged` package on the system, 
then adding the output of `puppet resource package foo` for it to the ticket?
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Bug #11450: Package provider improperly managing and logging purged resources
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11450

Author: Brett Lentz
Status: Needs More Information
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Daniel Pittman
Category: logging
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 2.6.12
Keywords: package purge
Branch: 


I have a package resource that I want to remove, including all of its 
dependencies. On Red Hat systems, this is done by "yum -y erase <package>". 

The corresponding puppet code is:

package { <package>: ensure => purged }

However, puppet prints this into the logs:

debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/bin/rpm -q abrt 
--nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} 
%{RELEASE} %{ARCH}
'
debug: Puppet::Type::Package::ProviderYum: Executing '/usr/bin/yum -y erase 
abrt'
notice: /Stage[main]/Global/Package[abrt]/ensure: created


The notice is clearly incorrect, as there's nothing that's been created. In 
fact, it repeatedly prints this notice and runs the "yum erase" command long 
after the package has *actually* been removed. 

Both of these behaviors are incorrect.

My expectation is:

1. Logged notices for purged resources should not describe anything as being 
"created".
2. Puppet should only run the "yum erase" command only if the package query 
("rpm -q") returns a valid result.


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