Jira (PUP-6488) Gem provider should allow alternative gem command; should not rely on $PATH

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Geoff Nichols (JIRA)

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Puppet / New Feature PUP-6488
Gem provider should allow alternative gem command; should not rely on $PATH
Issue Type: New Feature New Feature
Assignee: Unassigned
Created: 2016/07/11 2:17 PM
Priority: Normal Normal
Reporter: Geoff Nichols

In PUP-5427, Mikhail T. commented:

  1. The gem-provider should not rely on the $PATH for the default gem – it must explicitly invoke the gem-executable appropriate for the underlying OS. On Linux that's /usr/bin/gem, on FreeBSD that's typically /usr/local/bin/gem and so on.
  2. The gem-provider must allow specifying an alternative gemcmd. People have been asking for this for years. Something like: 

      package {'foo':
    		 
        ensure   => 'latest',
    		 
        provider => 'gem',
    		 
        gemcmd   => '/usr/local/bin/gem22'
    		 
      }

    ought to work. But does not...
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Sebastian Miclea (JIRA)

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Re: Gem provider should allow alternative gem command; should not rely on $PATH

Thomas Kishel Could you please add documentation to this ticket so it can be closed?

Thomas Kishel (JIRA)

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Change By: Thomas Kishel
Release Notes Summary: Package providers now support a targeted package management command

Puppet package providers use `which` to find the first package management command (for example: `gem` for Ruby, `pip` for Python) in the `PATH`. That prevented Puppet from managing other installations of the same software.

This release adds a `targetable` feature to the Package type, allowing Package providers to implement a `command` attribute. The gem and pip providers now implement that attribute.

```
package { 'colorize':
  name     => 'colorize',
  provider => gem,
}

package { 'colorize-opt':
  name     => 'colorize',
  provider => gem,
  command  => '/opt/ruby/bin/gem',
}
```

This feature allows Puppet to manages the packages in software collections (multiple versions of the same software) such as Red Hat Software Collections.

PUP-1082, PUP-6488
Release Notes: New Feature

Thomas Kishel (JIRA)

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Re: Gem provider should allow alternative gem command; should not rely on $PATH

Release note ready for review.

Thanks for your help with this!

Oana Tanasoiu (JIRA)

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Change By: Oana Tanasoiu
Fix Version/s: PUP 6.5.0

Heston Hoffman (JIRA)

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Vadym Chepkov (JIRA)

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Vadym Chepkov commented on New Feature PUP-6488
 
Re: Gem provider should allow alternative gem command; should not rely on $PATH

FYI, puppetlabs-puppetserver_gem module is not compatible with this change

Thomas Kishel (JIRA)

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Thomas Kishel commented on New Feature PUP-6488

I've added a commit to the pending PR for the puppetserver_gem module that resolves this:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-puppetserver_gem/pull/27

The change adds:

  def self.provider_command
 
    command(:puppetservercmd)
 
  end

(This is an example of why I suggested the puppetserver_gem provider be moved from a module to Puppet Core.)

Gheorghe Popescu (JIRA)

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Change By: Gheorghe Popescu
Fix Version/s: PUP 6.4.3
Fix Version/s: PUP 6.0.10
Fix Version/s: PUP 5.5.15

Austin Boyd (Jira)

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Austin Boyd (Jira)

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Nick Walker (Jira)

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Sep 10, 2020, 1:22:07 PM9/10/20
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Nick Walker commented on New Feature PUP-6488
 
Re: Gem provider should allow alternative gem command; should not rely on $PATH

For reference this issue causes the following issue in environments that have puppetserver_gem installed and do not upgrade to v1.1.1.

Could not prefetch package provider 'puppetserver_gem': No command gemcmd defined for provider puppetserver_gem
 
Failed to apply catalog: No command gemcmd defined for provider puppetserver_gem

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