All I am running puppet with tags to skip most of the manifest, and to just to install the admin users... but it seems that entire manifest puppet agent --test --tags User::Admins --debug this fails with err: /Stage[main]/Ruby::Install/Package[rubygem-colored]: Provider gem is not functional on this host 1. Why is this being applied? Does not match the tags users vs ruby? 2. Also the manifest "requires" that gem be installed prior? puppet v2.7.18 package { ''ruby'': ensure => latest, } package { ''rubygems'': ensure => latest, require => Package[''ruby''], } package { ''rubygem-colored'': ensure => latest, name => ''colored'', provider => ''gem'', require => Package[''ruby'',''rubygems''], } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.