Issue #12678 has been reported by Michael Stahnke.
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Bug #12678: yum provider doesn't respect items provided by a package, only the
package name
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12678
Author: Michael Stahnke
Status: Accepted
Priority: Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Affected Puppet version: 2.7.10
Keywords: yum package provides whatprovides
Branch:
A simple use case:
In EL5 and earlier, the curl development headers were included in a package
called curl-devel. In EL6 and later that package was renamed to libcurl-devel.
However, the libcurl-devel package still provides curl-devel.
When using something like
package { "curl-devel":
ensure => installed
}
puppet looks for this package every time.
[root@centos6-32 ~]# puppet resource package libcurl-devel
warning: Package kernel found in both yum and yum; skipping the yum version
warning: Package gpg-pubkey found in both yum and yum; skipping the yum
version
package { 'libcurl-devel':
ensure => '7.19.7-26.el6_1.2',
}
[root@centos6-32 ~]# puppet resource package curl-devel
warning: Package kernel found in both yum and yum; skipping the yum version
warning: Package gpg-pubkey found in both yum and yum; skipping the yum
version
package { 'curl-devel':
ensure => 'absent',
}
[root@centos6-32 ~]# rpm -q --whatprovides curl-devel
libcurl-devel-7.19.7-26.el6_1.2.i686
[root@centos6-32 ~]#
The yum provider should basically use the way yum work to make this happen. If
I do "yum install curl-devel" on EL6, it pulls in libcurl-devel. If I then do
an rpm -q --whatprovides curl-devel it shows that libcurl-devel provides that,
and thus something does not need to be installed.
Fixing this would likely have the side-benefit of being able to use the file
installation methods on yum as well. Such as
yum install /usr/bin/foo
Puppet would be like
package { "/usr/bin/foo":
ensure => installed,
}
That would then install whatever package contains the file /usr/bin/foo, as yum
from the CLI does.
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