Puppet users - Feb 2011 - Possible bug with apt and --force-yes

I spun up an instance of Ubuntu 10.10 in EC2 tonight and installed
puppet, for the purpose of testing mongodb. Ubuntu ships with Puppet
2.6.1

To do this I have a recipe which:
Installs the official mongodb repo:
exec { "mongodb_repo":
    command => "echo deb http://downloads.mongodb.org/distros/ubuntu
10.4 10gen > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mondodb.list && apt-key adv --
keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10 && apt-get update",
    creates => "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mondodb.list",
}

Then installs a specific version:
package { mongodb-stable: ensure => "20110131" }

Unfortunately this results in the following error:

err: //Packages::Mongodb/Package[mongodb-stable]/ensure: change from
purged to 20110131 failed: Could not update: Execution of ''/usr/bin/
aptitude -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install
mongodb-stable=20110131'' returned 1: /usr/bin/aptitude: unrecognized
option ''--force-yes''

I believe this is caused by the following code in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/
puppet/provider/package/apt.rb:
 60     str = @resource[:name]
 61     case should
 62     when true, false, Symbol
 63       # pass
 64     else
 65       # Add the package version and --force-yes option
 66       str += "=#{should}"
 67       cmd << "--force-yes"
 68     end

So in this case, when the version was specified, it broke aptitude.
On the command line, quoting the switches line this works:
    -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confold --force-yes"
However adding the quotes like this to apt.rb didn''t seem to do the
trick.

I couldn''t find any similar reported bugs. Has anyone else seen this
before?

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> err: //Packages::Mongodb/Package[mongodb-stable]/ensure: change from
> purged to 20110131 failed: Could not update: Execution of
''/usr/bin/
> aptitude -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install
> mongodb-stable=20110131'' returned 1: /usr/bin/aptitude:
unrecognized
> option ''--force-yes''
Hi, I''m not sure why your puppet is using the aptitude provider, but
you
may have better luck specifying

provider => "apt"

in your package resource.

HTH,
Felix

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 00:51, Avleen Vig <avleen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I spun up an instance of Ubuntu 10.10 in EC2 tonight and installed
> puppet, for the purpose of testing mongodb. Ubuntu ships with Puppet
> 2.6.1
[…]
> I believe this is caused by the following code in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/
> puppet/provider/package/apt.rb:
>  60     str = @resource[:name]
>  61     case should
>  62     when true, false, Symbol
>  63       # pass
>  64     else
>  65       # Add the package version and --force-yes option
>  66       str += "=#{should}"
>  67       cmd << "--force-yes"
>  68     end
>
> So in this case, when the version was specified, it broke aptitude.
> On the command line, quoting the switches line this works:
>    -o DPkg::Options::="--force-confold --force-yes"
> However adding the quotes like this to apt.rb didn''t seem to do
the
> trick.
>
> I couldn''t find any similar reported bugs. Has anyone else seen
this
> before?
I don''t recall seeing it, but I have a horrible feeling I know where
things are going sour in there.

Anyway, it looks to be a genuine bug, so please report it into RedMine for us.

Thanks for doing such good analysis of where the problem wound up, too.

Regards,
    Daniel
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