If you could, please go +1 it in Jira for visibility.

I too would love to see this fixed.

Trevor


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Drew Blessing <drew.bless...@buckle.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
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