Jira (PUP-8664) rpm package provider is too specific

Issue Type:	Bug
Affects Versions:	PUP 5.3.5
Assignee:	Unassigned
Components:	Types and Providers
Created:	2018/04/17 4:19 PM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Thomas Kishel

Puppet Version: 5.3.5 (and older)
Puppet Server Version: N/A
OS Name/Version: Centos/Redhat

The uninstall method in the rpm package provider is more specific than the package resource it is uninstalling, and uses a cache that can become out of date by the time it executes.

Desired Behavior:

Unconditionally uninstall a package when conditions are not specified.

Actual Behavior:

Example:

  package { 'cronie-anacron':

    ensure  => absent,

    require => Package['cronie-noanacron']

  package { 'cronie-noanacron':

    ensure => installed,

yum[3546]: Updated: cronie-anacron-1.4.11-19.el7.x86_64

yum[3546]: Updated: cronie-1.4.11-19.el7.x86_64

yum[3546]: Installed: cronie-noanacron-1.4.11-19.el7.x86_64

puppet-agent[1371]: (/Stage[main]/Package[cronie-noanacron]/ensure) created

puppet-agent[1371]: Execution of '/usr/bin/rpm -e cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64' returned 1: error: package cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64 is not installed

puppet-agent[1371]: (/Stage[main]/Package[cronie-anacron]/ensure) change from '1.4.11-17.el7' to 'absent' failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/rpm -e cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64' returned 1: error: package cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64 is not installed

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Thomas Kishel (JIRA)

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Re: rpm package provider is too specific

Example-Specific Notes:

cronie-anacron can't be installed without installing cronie-noanacron first as an alternative.

By installing cronie-noanacron, cronie gets updated as a dependency:

# rpm -q --requires cronie-noanacron

cronie = 1.4.11-19.el7

That in turn updates cronie-anacron:

# rpm -q --requires cronie-anacron

cronie = 1.4.11-19.el7

So by the time the rpm -e command runs, the cache is no longer valid.

Thomas Kishel (JIRA)

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*Puppet Version: 5.3.5 (and older)*
*Puppet Server Version: N/A*
*OS Name/Version: Centos/Redhat*

The uninstall method in the rpm package provider is more specific than the package resource it is uninstalling, and uses a cache that can become out of date by the time it executes.

*Desired Behavior:*

Unconditionally uninstall a package when conditions are not specified.

*Actual Behavior:*

Example:
{code:java}

package { 'cronie-anacron':
ensure => absent,
require => Package['cronie-noanacron']
}

package { 'cronie-noanacron':
ensure => installed,
}

{code}

{code:java}

yum[3546]: Updated: cronie-anacron-1.4.11-19.el7.x86_64
yum[3546]: Updated: cronie-1.4.11-19.el7.x86_64
yum[3546]: Installed: cronie-noanacron-1.4.11-19.el7.x86_64

puppet-agent[1371]: (/Stage[main]/Package[cronie-noanacron]/ensure) created
puppet-agent[1371]: Execution of '/usr/bin/rpm -e cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64' returned 1: error: package cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64 is not installed
puppet-agent[1371]: (/Stage[main]/Package[cronie-anacron]/ensure) change from '1.4.11-17.el7' to 'absent' failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/rpm -e cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64' returned 1: error: package cronie-anacron-1.4.11-17.el7.x86_64 is not installed

{code}

To reset the test environment after that puppet run, download cronie-1.4.11-14.el7.x86_64.rpm and cronie-anacron-1.4.11-14.el7.x86_64.rpm and run:

{code:java}
rpm -e cronie cronie-noanacron crontabs ; yum install -y cronie-* ; rpm -qa | grep cron ; puppet agent -t ; rpm -qa | grep cron
{code}

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Vadym Chepkov (JIRA)

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Re: rpm package provider is too specific

Another situation where 'caching' brings unexpected results. RHEL7 supplies subversion version 1.7, which is old and we were asked to upgrade it. Wandisco provides their version of RPMs, but without separating libraries into a different RPM, like RedHat does, so we have to force uninstalling subversion-libs package before installing packages from Wandisco. Here is the code:

  yumrepo { 'wandisco':

    baseurl     => "http://opensource.wandisco.com/rhel/\$releasever/svn-${version}/RPMS/\$basearch",

    descr       => 'Wandisco Subversion',

    gpgcheck    => '1',

    gpgkey      => 'http://opensource.wandisco.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-WANdisco',

    includepkgs => 'mod_dav_svn serf libserf subversion*',

  # RHEL library conflicts with wandisco binary

  package { 'subversion-libs':

    ensure => purged,

  package { ['mod_dav_svn', 'subversion']:

    ensure  => latest,

    require => [Yumrepo['wandisco'],Package['subversion-libs']],

To my big surprise, after puppet run I end up without mod_dav_svn or subversion of a any version.
Only second run will put proper packages back.

Thomas Kishel (JIRA)

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Adam Bottchen (JIRA)

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