Puppet

Can you provide a package name that has this problem, along with debug output for the run that should but doesn’t upgrade?

Ok,

lets see how up2date react, here we have several packages needing update, lets choose bind for the exemple:

(aqadmin)> sudo up2date -d -u

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-3...
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Fetching rpm headers...
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Name                                    Version        Rel
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bind                                    9.2.4          21.el3            i386
bind-chroot                             9.2.4          21.el3            i386
bind-libs                               9.2.4          21.el3            i386
bind-utils                              9.2.4          21.el3            i386
cups                                    1.1.17         13.3.45           i386
cups-libs                               1.1.17         13.3.45           i386
qt                                      3.1.2          16.RHEL3          i386
vsftpd                                  1.2.1          3E.14             i386


Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
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bind-9.2.4-21.el3.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.
bind-chroot-9.2.4-21.el3.i3 ########################## Done.
bind-libs-9.2.4-21.el3.i386 ########################## Done.
bind-utils-9.2.4-21.el3.i38 ########################## Done.
cups-1.1.17-13.3.45.i386.rp ########################## Done.
cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.45.i3 ########################## Done.
qt-3.1.2-16.RHEL3.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.
vsftpd-1.2.1-3E.14.i386.rpm ########################## Done.

(aqadmin)> sudo up2date --show-available |grep bind
bind-devel-9.2.4-21.el3.i386

(aqadmin)> sudo up2date --showall | grep bind
bind-9.2.4-21.el3.i386
bind-chroot-9.2.4-21.el3.i386
bind-devel-9.2.4-21.el3.i386
bind-libs-9.2.4-21.el3.i386
bind-utils-9.2.4-21.el3.i386
redhat-config-bind-2.0.0-14.2.noarch
ypbind-1.12-5.21.10.i386

As you see, using —show-available it does not have any bind* package to update , it simply do not list them so puppet do not upgrade them to latest:

(aqadmin)> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/local/bin/puppetd --config /usr/local/.aqadmin/etc/puppetd.conf --onetime --test --debug|egrep -i 'package|up2date|bind'
debug: package provider sun: Not suitable: missing /usr/bin/pkginfo
debug: package provider openbsd: Not suitable: missing pkg_info
debug: package provider dpkg: Not suitable: missing /usr/bin/dpkg
debug: package provider rug: Not suitable: missing /usr/bin/rug
debug: package provider ports: Not suitable: missing /usr/sbin/pkg_info
debug: package provider aptrpm: Not suitable: missing /usr/bin/apt-get
debug: package provider apple: Not suitable: missing /Library/Receipts
debug: package provider sunfreeware: Not suitable: missing pkg-get
debug: package provider freebsd: Not suitable: missing /usr/sbin/pkg_info
debug: package provider yum: Not suitable: missing yum
debug: package provider blastwave: Not suitable: missing pkg-get
debug: package provider portage: Not suitable: missing /usr/bin/eix
debug: package provider darwinport: Not suitable: missing /opt/local/bin/port
debug: package provider apt: Not suitable: missing /usr/bin/apt-get
debug: package provider aptitude: Not suitable: missing /usr/bin/aptitude
debug: package provider pkgdmg: Not suitable: missing /Library/Receipts
debug: //eul0800079.eu.verio.net/majos/Cron[up2date-cron-maj]/require: requires User[aqadmin]
debug: //eul0800079.eu.verio.net/baseaqueos/Package[sudo]/before: requires User[aqadmin]
debug: //eul0800079.eu.verio.net/baseaqueos/Package[tcsh]/before: requires Group[aqusers]
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/bin/rpm -q bind-libs --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/usr/sbin/up2date-nox --show-available'
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/bin/rpm -q wireshark --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/bin/rpm -q sudo --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/bin/rpm -q nano --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/bin/rpm -q bind-utils --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/usr/sbin/up2date-nox --show-available'
debug: package provider up2date: Executing '/bin/rpm -q tcsh --nosignature --nodigest --qf %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE} %{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}

i do not know if i was clear on this ticket.

For listing all the package available in up2date we do a: up2date-nox with the option

   --showall
          Show a list of all packages available from the channels the system is currently subscribed to, including those not currently installed.

but now the provider is using:

   --show-available
          List all packages available in the channels the server is subscribed to, but are not currently installed.

so you cannot update a package because show-available do not list the installed package. As it does not find it then it cannot update it :)

Does it sound clearer ?

Ghislain.