Installing rpm on debian using pkg.installed

[Wayne Christopher]

I have a state that looks like this:

my-package:

  pkg.installed:

    - sources:

        - my-package-base : salt://files/my-package-base.x86_64.rpm

    - skip_verify: True

It installs fine on CentOS, but on an Ubuntu system I get the following error on the minions:

2013-12-30 15:44:25,620 [salt.loaded.int.module.cmdmod               ][ERROR   ] Command 'dpkg-deb -I "/var/cache/salt/minion/files/base/files/my-package-base.x86_64.rpm"' failed with return code: 2

2013-12-30 15:44:25,620 [salt.loaded.int.module.cmdmod               ][ERROR   ] stderr: dpkg-deb: error: `/var/cache/salt/minion/files/base/files/my-package-base.x86_64.rpm' is not a debian format archive

I do have the rpm program installed on this machine.  Shouldn't the pkg.installed state use the rpm installer since that's what the file type is, instead of (I assume) using dpkg-deb because it's an Ubuntu system?

Can anybody suggest a workaround?

Thanks,

    Wayne

[Ben Hosmer]

I might be wrong here, but I don't think the Debian package manager can directly install an RPM.

You could try using RPM to directly install it. This might be an option or a feature request for the SALT packaging though to check if RPM is installed and use that instead.

[David Boucha]

You can specify the "provider" option

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[Wayne Christopher]

Could you give an example of how to do this?  If I add  "- provider: rpm" to the pkg.installed call, I get the error:

    State: - pkg

    Name:      perforce-client

    Function:  installed

        Result:    False

        Comment:   An exception occurred in this state: Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/state.py", line 1305, in call

    *cdata['args'], **cdata['kwargs'])

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/states/pkg.py", line 428, in installed

    fromrepo=fromrepo, **kwargs)

  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/salt/states/pkg.py", line 110, in _find_install_targets

    cur_pkgs = __salt__['pkg.list_pkgs'](versions_as_list=True)

TypeError: list_pkgs() got an unexpected keyword argument 'versions_as_list'

Thanks!

    Wayne

[Avi Marcus]

Seems there's a possibly unmerged bug regarding this mentioned here:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/8015

-Avi

[Colton Myers]

I'm not sure that that issue is actually related.  

Wayne, could you file an issue?  We want to make sure provider overrides are working properly.

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Colton Myers