Issue #13501 has been updated by Chris Price. Status changed from Unreviewed to Needs More Information Assignee set to Werner Bahlke
As the problem is described, I fully agree that we should at least provide a better error message. Can you possibly provide a bit more info to help us out with this? 1. OS version# 2. puppet version 3. a bare minimum manifest that tries to install the problematic package, and ideally can be used to reproduce the error via a simple "puppet apply" 4. output of apply/agent run with "--trace" flag Any or all of the above will be very useful to us. ---------------------------------------- Feature #13501: Better error message for err: Could not prefetch package provider 'freebsd': No resource and no name in property hash in freebsd instance https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/13501#change-58903 Author: Werner Bahlke Status: Needs More Information Priority: Normal Assignee: Werner Bahlke Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: error message, freebsd provider Branch: This error has to do with installing the mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin package and how the new package is constructed. When we tried another test and installed a random package (found in the ports tree) manually and ran the agent again, we had no problem completing successfully, even though an unknown package was installed. The SA rule package is not "real" in the sense that it comes from the ports tree and has an entry in the INDEX file that Puppet uses. The command that Puppet uses to enumerate packages is missing a piece of information (the port's "origin"), and that causes the error that we've seen. Any other package installed from the ports tree has an origin, and Puppet doesn't have a problem, even if it didn't install it. We also found that we can prevent the sa-update cron script from registering the package after it's installed. This will allow the SA rules to be updated periodically, but it will also avoid the Puppet error. At the very least, we'd love to see a better error message from Puppet, perhaps including the package name causing the failure. That would have tipped us off sooner. -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en.
