[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#529925: stupidly retried to install nonexistent package

[martin f krafft]

Package: puppet
Version: 0.24.8-1
Severity: minor

Every half hour, I see

  (//Node[debiannode]/base/Package[vim-nox]/ensure) ensure changed 'purged' to 'present'

from puppet on one of my hosts. No other warning (/var/log/puppet is
empty!?!??), so it took me a while to notice and then figure out
what was going on.

The problem is that vim-nox does not exist on etch yet:

  E: Package vim-nox has no installation candidate

It would be nice if puppet could emit a proper warning when apt-get
failed in this way.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-rc5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages puppet depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  facter                        1.5.4-1    a library for retrieving facts fro
ii  libopenssl-ruby               4.2        OpenSSL interface for Ruby
ii  libruby [libxmlrpc-ruby]      4.2        Libraries necessary to run Ruby 1.
ii  libshadow-ruby1.8             1.4.1-8    Interface of shadow password for R
ii  libxmlrpc-ruby                4.2        transitional dummy package
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-22     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  ruby                          4.2        An interpreter of object-oriented 

Versions of packages puppet recommends:
ii  libaugeas-ruby1.8             0.2.0-2    Augeas bindings for the Ruby langu
ii  rdoc                          4.2        Generate documentation from ruby s

puppet suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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