[Puppet Users] how to handle this package issue?

Larry Ludwig
2008-07-03T12:44:07Z

I have a common package name, that''s in two different package managers
(one with yum the other with gem)

        package { "remove-mysql":
                name     => "mysql",
                provider => "yum",
                ensure   => absent,
        }

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        package { "gem-mysql":
                name    => "mysql",
                ensure   => "2.7",
                provider => gem,
        }
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I get this error.

Jul  3 08:43:34 puppetd[11872]: Could not retrieve catalog:
Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Cannot
alias Package[gem-mysql] to mysql; resource Package[mysql] already
exists at /etc/puppet/modules/ruby-mysql/manifests/init.pp:11 on node


What''s the work around?