Issues with puppet agent 6.8.0

[trenta]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 6.8.0
• Ruby:
• Distribution: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• Module version: 7.0.1

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

class { 'nodejs': }

What are you seeing

Puppet runs are failing on machines after upgrade to puppet agent 6.8.0 correcting installation

Output log

Notice: /Stage[main]/Nodejs::Install/Package[nodejs]/ensure: created (corrective)
Info: Package nodejs-dev is virtual, defaulting to nodejs
Notice: /Stage[main]/Nodejs::Install/Package[nodejs-dev]/ensure: removed (corrective)

Any additional information you'd like to impart

I haven't looked into this very far yet but it's happening everywhere I use the module and puppet agent has been upgraded to 6.8.0

[Dan33l]

Hi @trenta thank you for the report.

It looks this issue is confirmed on all Ubuntu versions with Puppet 6 :

• with 1404 : https://travis-ci.org/voxpupuli/puppet-nodejs/jobs/577306111#L1558
• with 1604 : https://travis-ci.org/voxpupuli/puppet-nodejs/jobs/577306113#L1511
• with 1804 : https://travis-ci.org/voxpupuli/puppet-nodejs/jobs/577306115#L1509

All others pass acceptance tests:
https://travis-ci.org/voxpupuli/puppet-nodejs/builds/577306105

Can you investigate what is special with Ubuntu and Puppet 6 ?

[trenta]

I may get time. I wasn't effected by this when all puppet agents where 6.7.2

[trenta]

Actually I think the puppet 6.8.0 release notes show the issue. https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_puppet.html#virtual-packages-support-for-apt-dpkg
Specifically the virtual package support. See the output line from a puppet run.

Notice: /Stage[main]/Nodejs::Install/Package[nodejs]/ensure: created (corrective)
Info: Package nodejs-dev is virtual, defaulting to nodejs
Notice: /Stage[main]/Nodejs::Install/Package[nodejs-dev]/ensure: removed (corrective)

[Dan33l]

Ah yes probably.

@trenta can you propose a PR ?

[Dan33l]

This bug will probably be resolved by next release of puppet-agent:
https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PA-2402?focusedCommentId=680864#comment-680864

[trenta]

Yes I just saw that this morning. https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/latest/release_notes_puppet.html#puppet-resolved-issues-x.8.1

I've updated and tested and this problem is fixed.