I want to start a conversation about the package resource type and a bug that goes back about 6 years. The current ticket is https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-1073 and relates to really old tickets such as https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/973.
If I have gem 'x' and RPM 'x', I cannot have puppet manage both of those resources on the same box. This collision happens quite often in reality. For example, we are currently working on etcd and have both the etcd server RPM and the etcd gem. Puppet uses the etcd gem to interact with etcd's API. We should be able to manage both of these with puppet without a conflict. Unfortunately, the unique resource name does not key off of the package name AND the provider. Has anyone dug into the package type/provider or the puppet code base enough to know what it might take to fix this? On the surface it seems relatively easy but as long as the issue has been around it may be more involved. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/058beb1c-3438-4881-9bd7-4961cb752b4e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
