Under Debian, does not update collectd-core when require => 'latest'

[rymndhng]

If you're trying to perform an upgrade on an existing collectd installation and set require => 'latest', collectd-core does not get updated.

I would argue that this is more of an issue on the Debian side not specifying version requirements for collectd-core but it'd be great if this module would abstract this problem away.

[txaj]

Could you give us a complete snippet to reproduce ? Aren't you looking to set latest here instead ? https://github.com/pdxcat/puppet-module-collectd/blob/1830403421c03c10a00552075e164214e97c86da/manifests/init.pp#L16

[rymndhng]

On initial apply of puppet manifest, it works fine.

It doesn't work properly when performing an upgrade on an existing collectd installation:

1. run puppet with collectd resource with parameter require => 'latest'.
   (This will download the latest version of collectd and collectd-core)
2. new version of collectd is released
3. re-run puppet
   (updates collectd but not collectd-core)

[txaj]

Well...

# apt-cache show collectd|grep Depends
Depends: collectd-core, iptables, libc6 (>= 2.4), librrd4 (>= 1.3.0)

Is the mismatch between collectd and collectd-core causing issues ? If yes I'd also recommend to send this to Debian instead... Other than that I found unpractical to use ensure => latest anyway as it can cause surprise unplanned upgrades...

[rymndhng]

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from. In our setup we had ensure => 'installed', but on decision to use this module to update to the latest version, it's behavior did not match the expectation.

What I mean is that why have ensure => 'latest' if it's functionality is broken (albeit I haven't tried other platforms, hopefully they don't have this issue as well). I've filed a ticket upstream.

What are your thoughts on patching this inside the collectd module while this gets resolved though, because without managing the collectd-core package currently on Debian, ensure => 'latest' is broken.

[jyaworski]

I'd rather not have us code around OS packaging problems. However, we could ensure an array of packages on (I assume) $::osfamily == 'Debian'.

[jyaworski]

Let me know if #406 solves this for you.