Issue #16177 has been updated by Peter Meier. Status changed from Unreviewed to Duplicate
I'm pretty sure you gonna find an older bug talking about that. I remember that MySQL was the example there. A trivial search brought up: #1398 and #11887 ---------------------------------------- Bug #16177: Packages with the same name but different provider cannot be installed on the same machine https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/16177#change-70317 Author: Giles Westwood Status: Duplicate Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: # Tools required by multiple modules @package { "system-snmp": ensure => present, name => "snmp", tag => 'autoapply' } @package { "ruby-snmp": name => "snmp", provider => "gem", ensure => "1.1.0", tag => autoapply, } err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Cannot alias Package[ruby-snmp] to ["snmp"] at /var/lib/puppet/modules/semantico_soe/manifests/virtual_resources/gems.pp:11; resource ["Package", "snmp"] already defined at /var/lib/puppet/modules/os/manifests/debian/virtual_resources/packages.pp:173 at /var/lib/puppet/modules/semantico_soe/manifests/virtual_resources/gems.pp:11 on node devmon01a.dev.semantico.net -- 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.
