apt and yum resources are not listed as dependencies

[logicminds]

Puppet 6 removed the apt resource from the core so it needs to be downloaded separately and listed as a dependency. Without these dependencies this modules does not work.

Would likely have to also add yum_repo as a dependency too.

Once the apt resource is added install can continue.

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 6
• Ruby:
• Distribution: linux-mint
• Module version: 7.0.0

[juniorsysadmin]

apt and probably yum falls under the category of a soft dependency https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/6.0/style_guide.html#dependencies and I am strongly against adding them as a hard dependency as it causes all kinds of usability and maintenance issues longer term.

The README does mention puppetlabs-apt, but perhaps now with the removal of things from core, more needs to be listed there as part of a Pull Request.

[dhoppe]

@juniorsysadmin I agree that these modules should not be defined as hard dependency, but maybe we should add the following code to our modules, because not everyone reads the docs carefully:

if $facts['package_provider'] == 'deb' and !defined('apt') {
  fail('Please provide the module puppetlabs-apt')
} elsif $facts['package_provider'] == 'yum' and !defined('yumrepo_core') {
  fail('Please provide the module puppetlabs-yumrepo_core')
}

[dhoppe]

On second thought, I would love to see this at puppetlabs-stdlib, because we would not need to change our modules. But I think the list of modules would be endless:

• puppetlabs-apt
• puppetlabs-mysql
• puppetlabs-postgresql
• puppetlabs-yumrepo_core
• camtocamp-systemd
• stahnma-epel
• ...

[juniorsysadmin]

Issue #395 created to add docs