Attempt to override an already evaluated resource

[Martijn Grendelman]

Since a recent Puppet  update, my logs contain a lot of these warnings:

2017-08-21 14:03:20,146 WARN [qtp2051525912-14813] [puppetserver] Puppet Attempt to override an already evaluated resource, defined at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/puppet/manifests/collections.pp:45, with new values at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules/puppet/manifests/collections.pp:40

The code leading to these warnings is this:

        if $::operatingsystem == 'Debian' {

            $remove_packages = [

                'facter',

                'hiera',

                'puppet',

                'puppet-common'

            ]

            linux::package { $remove_packages: ensure => purged }

            Linux::Package['puppet-agent'] {

                require => Linux::Package[$remove_packages],

            }

        }

        linux::package { 'puppet-agent':

            ensure  => installed,

        }

 

I found PUP-6290, which seems related to this, but I am not sure the use case described in that ticket is the same. Also, I don't think that adding a 'require' metaparam to an already evaluated resource should require a re-evaluation of the resource body.

If my pattern of conditionally adding to a resource's parameters is wrong, how should I go about this?

Best regards,

Martijn.