Each time I run puppet agent it re-emerges php

[wildsurfer]

Here is my config:

  portage::package { "dev-lang/php":
    use          => ['curl', 'fpm', 'pcntl', 'gd', 'pdo', 'zip', 'intl', 'php_targets_php5-4'],
    mask_version => '>=5.5',
    ensure       => "latest",
    before       => Eselect['php::cli'],
  }

Each time I run puppet agent it re-emerges php. And it takes a long time. Do you have any ideas how to fix this?

What I'm trying to do is to install latest php 5.4.* version and to avoid installing php 5.5.*

[vikraman]

Hi,

Did it correctly create the package.use and package.mask? What does emerge say if you run it manually? The output of the following commands would be helpful.

$ grep php /etc/portage/package.use/default
$ grep php /etc/portage/package.mask/default
$ emerge -pvt php

[wildsurfer]

package.use

api-prod ~ # grep php /etc/portage/package.use/default
dev-lang/php curl fpm pcntl gd pdo zip intl php_targets_php5-4
app-admin/eselect-php fpm
dev-php/pecl-mongo php_targets_php5-4

package.mask

api-prod ~ # grep php /etc/portage/package.mask/default
>=dev-lang/php-5.5

emerge

api-prod ~ # emerge -pvt php

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] dev-lang/php-5.4.26:5.4  USE="berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype curl fileinfo filter fpm gd gdbm hash iconv intl ipv6 json nls pcntl pdo phar posix readline session simplexml ssl tokenizer unicode xml zip zlib -apache2 -bcmath -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -curlwrappers -debug -embed -enchant -exif -firebird -flatfile -ftp -gmp -imap -inifile -iodbc -kerberos -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -mhash -mssql -mysql -mysqli -mysqlnd -oci8-instant-client -odbc -postgres -qdbm -recode (-selinux) -sharedmem -snmp -soap -sockets -spell -sqlite (-sybase-ct) -systemd -sysvipc -threads -tidy -truetype -wddx -xmlreader -xmlrpc -xmlwriter -xpm -xslt" 0 kB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB

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[vikraman]

Everything looks fine to me, and I cannot reproduce the issue using your manifest on my vm. Can you run puppet agent with -vd and share the relevant logs?

[wildsurfer]

Looks like I was wrong and there is no issue. Sorry for bothering and thank you for trying to help!

You are doing a great work!