Puppet users - Aug 2014 - Puppet/yum fails to install old packages

Hello,

So I'm specifying specific packages to install for some of my critical 
software. This is specifically related to centos/yum. When new packages are 
released I get errors when running puppet saying that yum has failed to 
install the specified package because a newer version is available, but the 
package does in fact install. Upon the second run it sees the correct 
version and the catalog runs cleanly. 

Example code. 

$postgresqlVersion = $::lsbdistrelease ? {
      '5.10'            => "9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5",
      '6.5'     => "9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6",
      default           => "9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel6",
    }

package { $packageList:
    ensure      => $postgresqlVersion,
  }

The conflicting package is on centos5 The new version available 
is 9.2.9-1PGDG.rhel5. First run we get errors like the following

Notice: 
/Stage[main]/Postgresql::Install/Package[postgresql-server-8.1.23-10.el5_10]/ensure:
created
Error: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install 
postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5' returned 1: postgres
ql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 from vivox-postgresql has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: postgresql92-libs = 9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5 is needed 
by package postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 (vivox-po
stgresql)
Error: Missing Dependency: postgresql92-libs = 9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5 is needed 
by package postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 (vivox-p
ostgresql)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Wrapped exception:
Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install 
postgresql92-server-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5' returned 1: 
postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5.x8
6_64 from vivox-postgresql has depsolving problems

I get this for all the postgres packages I'm trying to install, however, 
even with these errors if I check all of the packages have been installed. 
rpm -qa | grep postgres
postgresql-libs-8.1.23-10.el5_10
postgresql92-libs-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5
postgresql-libs-8.1.23-10.el5_10
postgresql92-9.2.8-1PGDG.rhel5

So on the second run everything that was missed, due to the errors, gets 
completed and I now have a clean run. 

My question is, is there a way to work around this so that puppet doesn't 
error out on the first run? 

Thanks,
mjr

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