[chef] JDK RPM Install Error

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I have written a simple cookbook to install Sun's JDK via RPM. Once in a while
I get support questions about it failing during the install process of the
package.

The error is,

{
FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::Exec: package[jdk-6u23-linux-x64.rpm]
(sun_java::default line 23) had an error: yum -d0 -e0 -y --nogpgcheck
localinstall /var/cache/chef/jdk-6u23-linux-x64.rpm returned 1, expected 0
}

When they run the command they see,

{
yum -d0 -e0 -y --nogpgcheck localinstall 
/var/cache/chef/jdk-6u23-linux-x64.rpm
This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.

Transaction Check Error:
  package jdk-1.6.0_23-fcs.x86_64 is already installed
}

Which is actually the same exact package they are trying to install. I am
guessing this is an issue with the build/packaging of the rpms being 
different.

Has anyone seen this or have any ideas how to fix/avoid this? The easiest
option I could think of is to add a 'not_if' option to the package and to grep
the output of 'java -version' for the correct version, but I don't like that
idea since the package resource should handle it.

Here is the resource in question,

{
package javaRPM do
  action :install
  source "#{Chef::Config[:file_cache_path]}/#{javaRPM}"
  options "--nogpgcheck" # sun/oracle doesn't sign their RPMs o_O
  notifies :run, "bash[update-alternatives java]", :immediately
end
}