Jira (PUP-3498) Create rubygem confine for use with providers

[Josh Cooper (JIRA)]

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Josh Cooper commented on an issue   Re: Create rubygem confine for use with providers Reid Vandewiele This should work today. Define a feature that is true if the gem can be loaded: Puppet.features.add(:somegem, :libs => ["somegem"]) And then confine your provider: confine :feature => :somegem From https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/provider_development.html#suitability "As of 2.7.20, Puppet will enable the provider if the feature becomes available during a run (i.e. a package is installed)." If this isn't working correctly, let us know. Add Comment   Puppet / PUP-3498 Create rubygem confine for use with providers Currently, if a provider requires a particular rubygem to be installed in order to function, it is difficult to indicate, or confine, that provider to systems that have the gem installed WHILE allowing in-run installation of the gem. E.g. have Puppet pluginsync down a new mount provider, my_provider, from a module, and specify a package resource, with the... 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/d/optout.