It's just this one, as far as I know. I would like to see the RAL updated, but I'd like this fix in Puppet 3 and the RAL update in Puppet 4/5/whatever.
Trevor On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Drew Blessing <[email protected]>wrote: > Unless you can definitively say that making major changes in the RAL to > address this issue is slated for the near future (say, late 3.x release or > first 4.x release), I'd say the individual fix for package type is > warranted in the meantime. Are there any other types that you think people > are having major issues with at the moment? Maybe the "shim" could be > released in 3.x series and work can proceed on the longterm fix in the 4.x > series? > > > On Monday, March 10, 2014 10:07:42 AM UTC-5, Adrien Thebo wrote: > >> My concern with this solution is that it's a one time shim for a single >> type. Granted, it may work and could solve this particular problem. However >> I think this is a flaw in the RAL that has a number of touch points that >> also need to be fixed. This might be me being too idealistic but I think >> that we can fix this issue and improve the entire RAL rather than trying to >> make individual cases work as expected. >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Drew Blessing <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I agree, it seems like this solution would be simple and effective. I am >>> almost positive there are other types that behave this way. It breaks >>> nothing and fixes everything, as far as I can see. >>> >>> On Saturday, March 8, 2014 2:48:21 PM UTC-6, Pedro Côrte-Real wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Adrien Thebo <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> > Long story short, allowing multiple resources to exist with the same >>>> title >>>> > but different providers is problematic. >>>> >>>> There's no reason to need to do that though. Package just needs to be >>>> able to override the package name without changing $name as that needs >>>> to be unique. So you should be able to do something like: >>>> >>>> package { 'somepackage-in-apt': ensure => present, pkgname => >>>> 'somepackage', provider => apt, } package { 'somepackage-in-gem': >>>> ensure => absent, pkgname => 'somepackage', provider => gem, } >>>> >>>> Since we've used $pkgname instead of $name this doesn't have the >>>> uniqueness issue. I've looked around the code and this seems easy >>>> enough to do. The Package providers just need to do "pkgname ||= name" >>>> so the older stuff doesn't break. >>>> >>>> Can anyone find any fault with this solution? I've commented on these >>>> bug reports a lot of times and never gotten any answer to this. It >>>> seems pretty amazing that this bug still exists after so many years. >>>> >>>> Pedro >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Puppet Developers" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>> msgid/puppet-dev/7eb053d7-be1b-47b0-8a72-73a57d898612%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/7eb053d7-be1b-47b0-8a72-73a57d898612%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Adrien Thebo | Puppet Labs >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/74d181f4-60ed-40d3-bcb8-84cc3543d862%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/74d181f4-60ed-40d3-bcb8-84cc3543d862%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Trevor Vaughan Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc (410) 541-6699 [email protected] -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoXHDq-drECLK9%3DJdfddbyN_n2eYf8z0NPAa_ug0P%2Bu78g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
