In theory a composite namevar could be used if you just specify the
provider.
For instance, on a Red Hat system:
package { 'foo': ensure => 'latest' } ==> namevar == foo:yum
And
package { 'foo': ensure => 'latest', provider => 'gem' } ==> namevar ==
foo:gem
That said, I never could get composite namevars to work this way. I always
had to have a unique name which ended up in something silly like package {
'foo_rpm':} or package { 'foo_gem':} which, while it should work, is
absolutely horrible to read.
Trevor
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Pedro Côrte-Real <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Adrien Thebo <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Long story short, allowing multiple resources to exist with the same
> title
> > but different providers is problematic.
>
> There's no reason to need to do that though. Package just needs to be
> able to override the package name without changing $name as that needs
> to be unique. So you should be able to do something like:
>
> package { 'somepackage-in-apt': ensure => present, pkgname =>
> 'somepackage', provider => apt, } package { 'somepackage-in-gem':
> ensure => absent, pkgname => 'somepackage', provider => gem, }
>
> Since we've used $pkgname instead of $name this doesn't have the
> uniqueness issue. I've looked around the code and this seems easy
> enough to do. The Package providers just need to do "pkgname ||= name"
> so the older stuff doesn't break.
>
> Can anyone find any fault with this solution? I've commented on these
> bug reports a lot of times and never gotten any answer to this. It
> seems pretty amazing that this bug still exists after so many years.
>
> Pedro
>
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