[chef] yum package resource/provider

[Tristan Sloughter < >]

I've run into an interesting problem with the yum package installer. In my recipe I have:

package "Xvfb" do

  action :install

end

This fails with:

/usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/chef-0.9.14/bin/../lib/chef/provider/package.rb:50:in `action_install': No version specified, and no candidate version available for Xvfb (Chef::Exceptions::Package)

But if I simply do :

$ sudo yum install Xvfb

It installs fine.

I saw bugs in the Chef issues tracker but they seemed to say they were fixed and from 2009.

My client is 0.9.14 but the server is 0.9.8.

Tristan