[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: yum package resource/provider

[Charles Duffy < >]

Probably the easiest way to do this from the perspective of the python code would be to leave yum-dump as-is, and in the unusual case where we have a package whose name we can't resolve, do a YumBase.whatProvides() call to get the list of candidates [and use bestPackagesFromList to select from the candidates].

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Paul Choi < "> > wrote:

This is tricky though. Although I'd love to see it improved/fixed/or whatever. 

Yum knows to resolve Xvfb to xorg-x11-server-Xvfb, but if you were to get the list or RPMs installed on the system, you'd get xorg-x11-server-Xvfb. Since I'm not familiar with Yum Python module, I have no idea how Chef would go about distinguishing between an RPM name that's invalid vs. an alias for a different package name.

So far I've learned to deal with it or code to check for node[:platform_version].

-Paul

From: Charles Duffy < " target="_blank"> >
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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 11:22:48 -0600
To: Tristan Sloughter < " target="_blank"> >
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Subject: [chef] Re: Re: yum package resource/provider

...so, install with the package name "xorg-x11-server-Xvfb" rather than simply "Xvfb".

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Tristan Sloughter < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I see this when I run yum_dump.py:

xorg-x11-server-Xvfb,available,0,1.1.1,48.76.el5_5.2,x86_64

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Charles Duffy < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'd start by looking through the output of the yum_dump.py helper shipped with chef (when Xvfb is not installed).

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Tristan Sloughter < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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