[chef] Providing version numbers to yum when installing packages?

[Brad Knowles < >]

Folks,

So, I'm a little confused on how yum picks the exact version of a package to 
install.  We have an RPM that we created with fpm, called 
foo-1.45.noarch.rpm.  We have a recipe that installs this package:

yum_package "foo >= 1.45" do
    Chef::Log.debug("Installing package foo w/ yum")
    action :install
end

Yet, when we go through the chef-client run, we get errors like this:

[Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:31:47 +0000] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: 
yum_package[foo >= 1.45] (web::default line 34) had an error: yum -d0 -e0 -y 
install foo-1.45-1 returned 1, expected 0
---- Begin output of yum -d0 -e0 -y install foo-1.45-1 ----
STDOUT: STDERR: 

Error Downloading Packages:
  foo-1.45-1.noarch: failure: foo-1.45.noarch.rpm from repo: [Errno 256] No 
more mirrors to try.

---- End output of yum -d0 -e0 -y install foo-1.45-1 ----


Where is it getting this "-1" part of the version number?  How do we stop 
that?

Yes, I'm sure I could change all our tooling from jenkins or make or whatever 
to provide a "--iteration 1" argument to fpm when creating the rpm in the 
first place, but it would be a lot easier if yum wasn't trying to look for 
the wrong version number in the first place.

Thanks!

-- 
Brad Knowles 
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