Issue #19718 has been reported by Mike Power.

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Bug #19718: Puppet seems to create backwards dependency resulting in cyclic 
dependencies
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19718

Author: Mike Power
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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Category: 
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 
Keywords: dependency
cycle
Branch: 


I have used someone's archive plugin to
1) download apache
2) ensure that webapps is present
3) download jenkins into webapps


naturally jenkins depends on webapps
webapps is made to depend on apache
apache depends are created by the archive plugin
archive plugin makes apache depend on the curl package.

That all makes sense.  However puppet picks up a really odd dependency that 
says package curl depends on jenkins.  I can't find where in the archive plugin 
this might be done.  It does not look like I did it.  So it seems like puppet.  
Let me know if I am wrong.

I created a sample project at:
https://github.com/dodtsair/puppet-cyclicdependency

It is a bit dodgy.  On my proprietary project if I add a package { "curl":} 
right next to the archive::download call.  Just sitting next to each other.  
The cycle goes away.  


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