Jira (PUP-1295) Yum provider "purge" target runs irrespective of package installation status

[Bruce Bushby (JIRA)]

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Bruce Bushby commented on an issue   Re: Yum provider "purge" target runs irrespective of package installation status This is affecting all of our machines: [root@xxxx-linux opt]# [root@xxxx-linux opt]# rpm -qa | grep puppet puppet-3.3.2-1.el6.noarch [root@xxxx-linux opt]# The package does not exist, but we still the the syslog message due to the "ensure => "purged"; class sudo::install { if ( $operatingsystem in [ 'redhat', 'RedHat' ]) { package { "sudo": ensure => latest; "xxxx-sudoers": ensure => "purged"; } } } The syslof message: Jan 23 03:42:28 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[17413]: (/Stage[main]/Sudo::Install/Package[xxxx-sudoers]/ensure) created Jan 23 03:42:31 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[17413]: Finished catalog run in 5.10 seconds Jan 23 04:42:29 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[18542]: (/Stage[main]/Sudo::Install/Package[xxxx-sudoers]/ensure) created Jan 23 04:42:32 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[18542]: Finished catalog run in 5.62 seconds Jan 23 05:42:30 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[19258]: (/Stage[main]/Sudo::Install/Package[xxxx-sudoers]/ensure) created Jan 23 05:42:33 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[19258]: Finished catalog run in 7.09 seconds Jan 23 06:42:29 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[20361]: (/Stage[main]/Sudo::Install/Package[xxxx-sudoers]/ensure) created Jan 23 06:42:31 xxxx-linux puppet-agent[20361]: Finished catalog run in 5.48 seconds Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-1295 Yum provider "purge" target runs irrespective of package installation status It seems the yum provider will try to purge an absent package: <pre> [root@test ~]# cat test.pp package { logwatch: ensure => purged; } [root@test ~]# /bin/rpm -q logwatch --nosignature --nodigest --qf '%{NAME} %|EPOCH?{%{EPOCH}}:{0}| %{VERSION} %{RELEASE} %{ARCH}' package logwatch is not installed [root@test ~]# puppet -d -v test.pp debug: P... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.