Bug #712

the portage provider detects wrong version number for installed packages

Added by Gábor Vészi over 4 years ago. Updated 11 months ago.

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Category:Gentoo
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Affected Puppet version:0.24.7 Branch:
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Description

There seems to be some problem with the portage provider. Here’s what I have installed (output of eix -e mysql):

[I] dev-db/mysql
     Available versions:  [M]*3.23.58-r1 4.0.27-r1 4.1.22-r1 [M]~4.1.23_alpha20070101-r61 [m]5.0.26-r2 [m]~5.0.32 [m]~5.0.34 [m]5.0.38 [m]5.0.40 [m]5.0.42 {berkdb big-tables cluster debug embedded extraengine innodb latin1 max-idx-128 minimal perl raid readline selinux ssl static tcpd}
     Installed versions:  4.1.22-r1(14:16:44 07/09/07)(berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -embedded -extraengine -latin1 minimal perl -raid -selinux ssl -static)
     Homepage:            http://www.mysql.com/
     Description:         A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server.

So I have the latest stable version, 4.1.22-r1 installed – puppet thinks I only have 4.1:

notice: //base/foo.bar.hu/mysql/Package[mysql]/ensure: ensure changed '4.1' to '4.1.22-r1'

The other packages doesn’t seem to have any problem and I only have this bug with puppet 0.23.0, not with 0.22.4.

History

#1
Updated by Gábor Vészi about 4 years ago

I’m using 

app-admin/puppet-0.23.2-r1
now and I still have the above error. I’ll try it with 0.24.x as soon as it gets into the gentoo portage tree, but I think I got closer to the root of the bug. I think the problem is, that on a gentoo system with mysql installed, there are two packages named mysql:

$ eix --nocolor --format '  [] []  ' -e mysql
dev-db mysql [5.0.44-r2] [5.0.44-r2] http://www.mysql.com/ A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL database server.
virtual mysql [5.0] [5.0] http://dev.mysql.com Virtual for [[MySQL]] client or database

dev-db/mysql and virtual/mysql – one with the full version string, the other with just the main version. Here’s the manifest snippet where I define the mysql package:

package { 'mysql': category => 'dev-db', ensure => latest; }

Am I doing something wrong, or this is just the way it works for everyone?

#2
Updated by Ramon Alteren almost 4 years ago

Hi

This is a gentoo package manager specific problem which may or may not be tied to the tool used to get a package list. I’ll see if I can fix this in the puppet code by modifying the eix-call to list packages but I think that will end up being a dead end.

Best work-around is to specify the package category with the package you wish to install on Gentoo.

This is a more general bug/feature on gentoo, for example:

$ eix -e eaccelerator

 dev-php4/eaccelerator
     Available versions:  [M]~0.9.5r1 [M]~0.9.5.1 {apache2 contentcache debug disassembler inode session sharedmem}
     Homepage:            http://www.eaccelerator.net/
     Description:         A PHP Accelerator & Encoder.

* dev-php5/eaccelerator
     Available versions:  ~0.9.5.1 0.9.5.1r1 {apache2 contentcache debug disassembler inode session sharedmem}
     Homepage:            http://www.eaccelerator.net/
     Description:         A PHP Accelerator & Encoder.

#3
Updated by Redmine Admin over 3 years ago

  • Status changed from 1 to Accepted

#4
Updated by Luke Kanies almost 3 years ago

  • Assignee changed from Luke Kanies to Puppet Community
  • Target version changed from 0.25.0 to 4
  • Affected Puppet version set to 0.24.7

We can’t plan this without a patch, so until someone takes up the torch it’s getting bumped.

#5
Updated by James Turnbull over 2 years ago

  • Assignee deleted (Puppet Community)

#6
Updated by Benedikt Böhm about 2 years ago

the portage provider checks for ambiguity, so either this has already been fixed, or the problem is not related to multiple packages having the same name …

#7
Updated by James Turnbull about 2 years ago

  • Status changed from Accepted to Closed

Closing this – please re-open if there is still an issue.

#8
Updated by James Turnbull 11 months ago

  • Target version deleted (4)

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