Notice: package install ensured on every run

[Lars Van Steenbergen]

So every run my puppetmaster spawns a notice that a certain package install -> created. 
Every time again, this is not a problem but really annoying.

Did a make a beginner mistake in the code, or is this a bug or something else?

This is the manifest:

class icinga::install {

package {'icinga*':

  ensure =>installed,

  provider => 'yum',

  before => Package['openssh-clients','ftp','wget']

}

package {'openssh-clients':

  ensure =>installed,

  provider => 'yum'

}

package {'ftp':

  ensure =>installed,

  provider => 'yum'

}

package {'wget':

  ensure =>installed,

  provider => 'yum'

}

}

[R.I.Pienaar]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017, at 11:35, Lars Van Steenbergen wrote:
> So every run my puppetmaster spawns a notice that a certain package
> install
> -> created.
> Every time again, this is not a problem but really annoying.
>
> Did a make a beginner mistake in the code, or is this a bug or something
> else?
>
> This is the manifest:
>
> class icinga::install {
> package {'icinga*':

package doesnt take wildcards, thats why it happens.

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am 21.09.2017 um 11:35 schrieb Lars Van Steenbergen:

package {'icinga*':

  ensure =>installed,

  provider => 'yum',

  before => Package['openssh-clients','ftp','wget']

}

Guess there's no package named "icinga*" in your distribution. You need to provide the exact package name(s), either as array or as several package resources.

Array example:
package { ['some', 'packages', 'to', 'install']:
    ...
}

HTH...

    Dirk

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[Lars Van Steenbergen]

Thank you both, 

The issue was indeed the wildcard.

I did not notice this because the package did get installed.

Again, lesson learned ;-)

[R.I.Pienaar]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017, at 11:45, Lars Van Steenbergen wrote:
> Thank you both,
>
> The issue was indeed the wildcard.
> I did not notice this because the package did get installed.
>
> Again, lesson learned ;-)

Puppet will pass what you give it to rpm/yum, so "yum install icinga*"
works fine, but then later it wants to know if "icinga*" is installed
and it looks for exactly that package name - it doesnt understand the
glob. So it does not find a package called "icinga*" so it tries to
install it again etc

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