Issue #20269 has been updated by Brandon Burton. Status changed from Accepted to Closed
They have fixed this and it looks good for me. Available Packages Name : virt-what Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.12 Release : 2.1.amzn1 Size : 24 k Repo : amzn-updates Summary : Detect if we are running in a virtual machine URL : http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-what/ License : GPLv2+ Description : virt-what is a shell script which can be used to detect if the program : is running in a virtual machine. : : The program prints out a list of "facts" about the virtual machine, : derived from heuristics. One fact is printed per line. : : If nothing is printed and the script exits with code 0 (no error), : then it can mean either that the program is running on bare-metal or : the program is running inside a type of virtual machine which we don't : know about or cannot detect. : : Current types of virtualization detected: ---------------------------------------- Bug #20269: Facter 1.7 fails to install on Amazon Linux because Amazon Linux does not provide a virt-what package https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20269#change-90047 * Author: Brandon Burton * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: Matthaus Owens * Category: cloud - ec2 * Target version: * Keywords: * Branch: * Affected Facter version: 1.7.0 ---------------------------------------- Facter 1.7 fails to install on Amazon Linux because Amazon Linux does not provide a virt-what package. __Details on System:__ <pre> [root@ec2-001 ]# cat /etc/issue Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.03 Kernel \r on an \m </pre> __Example of issue:__ <pre> [root@ec2-001 ]# yum update facter Loaded plugins: priorities, security, update-motd, upgrade-helper amzn-main | 2.1 kB 00:00 amzn-updates | 2.3 kB 00:00 985 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package facter.x86_64 1:1.6.17-1.el6 will be updated ---> Package facter.x86_64 1:1.7.0-1.el6 will be an update --> Processing Dependency: virt-what for package: 1:facter-1.7.0-1.el6.x86_64 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: 1:facter-1.7.0-1.el6.x86_64 (puppetlabs) Requires: virt-what You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest </pre> This was discovered when trying to Puppetize a new Amazon Linux EC2 instnace. -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
