Issue #1398 has been updated by Pedro Côrte-Real.
Adrien, your example doesn't work of course because you can't have two
resources with the same name, but you don't need that for this to work. An
example would be:
package { 'somepackage-in-apt':
ensure => present,
pkgname => 'somepackage',
provider => apt,
}
package { 'somepackage-in-gem':
ensure => absent,
pkgname => 'somepackage',
provider => gem,
}
And this would properly ensure the package is installed through apt and not
rubygems. Your apt/dpkg example is a corner case since in the outside (puppet)
world apt is layered on top of dpkg. It's up to the user that "if it hurts when
you do that, stop doing that".
Not having looked at the code I do think this shouldn't be such a complex fix
as the current difficulty isn't enforced by the puppet type system, just by the
fact that the current package implementation uses $name for setting the package
instead of $my_other_random_name_variable. Creating $pkgname ||= $name like I
suggested would fix this while being backwards compatible.
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Feature #1398: Common package name in two different providers
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/1398#change-97475
* Author: Lawrence Ludwig
* Status: Accepted
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee:
* Category: package
* Target version:
* Affected Puppet version: 2.7.21
* Keywords: package alias
* Branch:
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I have a common package name, that's in two different package managers
(one with yum the other with gem)
package { "remove-mysql":
name => "mysql",
provider => "yum",
ensure => absent,
}
---------------------------------------------------------
package { "gem-mysql":
name => "mysql",
ensure => "2.7",
provider => gem,
}
---------------------------------------------------------
I get this error.
Jul 3 08:43:34 puppetd[11872]: Could not retrieve catalog:
Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Cannot
alias Package[gem-mysql] to mysql; resource Package[mysql] already
exists at /etc/puppet/modules/ruby-mysql/manifests/init.pp:11 on node
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