Puppet

Hello,

I have hit an issue where puppet cannot manage the the facilities provided to it by rpm/yum. I tried to use puppet to ensure an extra kernel package would be installed on a system by adding the following line

package { kernel-xen: ensure => “2.6.18-92.1.6.el5” }

However when running the manifest on the server I get the following message

err: //Node[vfuk3]/productionsys/production/Package[kernel-xen]/ensure: change from 2.6.18-53.el5 to 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 failed: Could not update: Failed to update to version 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5, got version 2.6.18-53.el5 instead at /var/lib/puppet/modules/production/manifests/init.pp:17

then after the initial puppet run the follow is reported by rpmquery

[root@vfuk3 ~]# rpmquery kernel-xen kernel-xen-2.6.18-53.el5 kernel-xen-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5

So clearly puppet has managed to install the package however due to the first time also finding another kernel-xen package installed it took the version of the first package it found and assumed the new version it had requested was not installed.

RPM does support installing two packages with the same name and different version for good reasons, if puppet is to manage rpm based systems it should too.