On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 6:24 PM, d0ugb <d0u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Need some help here. I am using puppet to mange some Gentoo boxes, and > when working with packages I keep getting the following error: > > Could not find a default provider for package > > Version: > > * app-admin/puppet > Latest version available: 0.25.0-r1 > Latest version installed: 0.25.0-r1 > Size of files: 592 kB > Homepage: http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet > Description: A system automation and configuration management > software > License: GPL-2 >
1) I really recommend avoiding versions of puppet whos versions end with a ".0" if you want a stable version. 2) This error means that puppet can't decide which "provider" to use for installing. In the case of Ubuntu, this would be "Apt". 3) Look at the type reference http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/0.25.0/type.html#package and find the section talking about "provider". One of them should mention the comment you use for launching the package manager. (probably the one mentioning emerge) 4) It says catagory is read-only, so remove that. 5) I think "name" isn't needed. After your manifest is working, try removing that. 6) You might want to try to figure out why it didn't get the right provider. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
