Hello, Working through some issues with upgrading our environment from 2.x to 3.5 (now I should probably target 3.6 !) anyway we have a module which does basically. package { 'openssh-server': ensure => 'absent', } package { '3rd-party-ssh': ensure => 'installed' } This 3rd party SSH package has a "provides" of openssh-server on it. As such if you issue a "yum remove openssh-server" manually it will try and remove the 3rd party version. Which is the standard YUM behaviour I believe. So therefore on the 3.x servers the package is being removed/installed every time and as there is no dependencies here it can leave us without an SSH server running. Which I guess is probably what we are actually telling it to do. But this never happens in the 2.x series. Any ideas on why, and how we can stop this behaviour ? Thanks Paul -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/daba08fe-85bc-426d-90ee-a01d3bd91ec8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.