puppetserver_gem provider requires PATH to include path to puppetserver binary

[davealden]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: any?
• Ruby: any?
• Distribution: any?
• Module version: 2.2.0

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

ensure('vault', {provider=>'puppetserver_gem'})

What are you seeing

Error: /Stage[main]/Profile::Puppetmaster/Package[vault]: Provider puppetserver_gem is not functional on this host

What behaviour did you expect instead

vault to be installed

Output log

Any additional information you'd like to impart

Looking at lib/puppet/provider/package/puppetserver_gem.rb I see that it does a which('puppetserver'), hence the requirement that it be in the path. But this is the only thing I've ever run in to that required puppetserver to be in the path when I run "puppet agent -t". The puppetlabs/puppetserver_gem module doesn't do a which, it hard codes it to the path -- maybe this should do the same?

[maxadamo]

but, how about removing the puppetserver_gem support?
There is an official puppetserver_gem module: puppetserver_gem
but it's not possible to use that one along with this one: it keeps overwriting the ruby script at each run.

[ZeroPointEnergy]

Looks like this provider is no longer in the module in the most recent version. This can probably be closed?