Jira (PUP-4090) Zypper provider doesn't work correctly on SLES 10.4 with install_options set

[Melissa Stone (JIRA)]

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Melissa Stone commented on PUP-4090   Re: Zypper provider doesn't work correctly on SLES 10.4 with install_options set Geoff Williams hmm, so, looking into this, I'm finding a few issues. Zypper lets you pass in command specific options in addition to the global options (like - no-gpg-check). With your change, the provider is now broken if the user wants to pass any command specific options (say, -type language if they're installing something like yi or zh). dv7puf6mqjvc4gv:~ # puppet apply -e "package { 'yi':, provider => 'zypper', name => 'yi', ensure => present, install_options => [ '--type language' ], }" Notice: Compiled catalog for dv7puf6mqjvc4gv in environment production in 0.27 seconds Warning: The package type's allow_virtual parameter will be changing its default value from false to true in a future release. If you do not want to allow virtual packages, please explicitly set allow_virtual to false. (at /opt/puppet/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/puppet/type/package.rb:430:in `block (3 levels) in <module:Puppet>') Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/zypper --terse "--type language" install yi --auto-agree-with-licenses --no-confirm' returned 2: Unknown command '"--type language"'.   Commands: help Help shell, sh Accept multiple commands at once install, in Install packages or resolvables remove, rm Remove packages or resolvables search, se Search for packages matching a pattern service-list, sl List services, also called installation sources service-add, sa Add a new service service-delete, sd Delete a service service-rename, sr Rename a service refresh, ref Refresh all installation sources patch-check, pchk Check for patches patches, pch List patches list-updates, lu List updates update, up Update packages info, if Show full information for packages patch-info Show full information for patches Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Package[yi]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/zypper --terse "--type language" install yi --auto-agree-with-licenses --no-confirm' returned 2: Unknown command '"--type language"'.   Commands: help Help shell, sh Accept multiple commands at once install, in Install packages or resolvables remove, rm Remove packages or resolvables search, se Search for packages matching a pattern service-list, sl List services, also called installation sources service-add, sa Add a new service service-delete, sd Delete a service service-rename, sr Rename a service refresh, ref Refresh all installation sources patch-check, pchk Check for patches patches, pch List patches list-updates, lu List updates update, up Update packages info, if Show full information for packages patch-info Show full information for patches Like you mentioned in your long term fix, I'd ideally like to have something like :global_options, in addition to :install_options to differentiate between those options globally available for zypper versus those that are specific to the install command. But I'm worried that would take away from ease of use? Maybe that control would be worth having though. Kylo Ginsberg do you know of any other providers that have position dependent flags? I feel like there are definitely some usability and maintenance questions here. Honestly, I'm not positive the best way to go about solving this in the best way possible. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.10#6340-sha1:7ea293a) -- 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.