On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 05:26:30AM -0700, matonb wrote:
> puppet-server 2.7.19 on CentOS 6.3 x64
>
> I have the follow very bsaic class, which I would expect to install the
> package if it's not already present on the system:
>
> class yum::repos::puppetlabs {
> package { 'puppetlabs-release':
> ensure => installed,
> source =>
> 'http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-release-6-5.noarch.rpm',
> }
> }
> It doesn't appear to use the source value, simply the package name in the
> yum command:
>
> err: /Stage[main]/Yum::Repos::Puppetlabs/Package[puppetlabs-release]/
> ensure: change from absent to present failed:
> Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install puppetlabs-release'
> returned 1: Error: Nothing to do
>
> If I manually install with
> yum install
> http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/x86_64/puppetlabs-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
>
> It works just fine.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
The package type actually has a lot of parameters that are only used by
a subset of all providers. Like "category" is only used on gentoo (i
guess) and "adminfile" is a solaris pkgadd specific.
If you think that source should not only be respected by the rpm
provider but also in the yum provider you should file a feature request:
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues
-Stefan
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