From: Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de>
Subject: Re: Issues upgrading from Puppet7 to Puppet8
To: Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com>
Cc: Giovanni Bechis <giovanni@paclan.it>, Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@openbsd.org>, ports@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:39:39 +0200

Find my Mail “overhaul puppet package handling in puppet 8” or something along the lines from April 24 in ports@ archives, which explains.

Sebastian 

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> On 8. Oct 2025, at 11:42, Janne Johansson <icepic.dz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Not sure, but is this one of the effects of pkg_add needing -Dsnap if
> you are on current before the 7.8 packages exist?
> 
> Den ons 8 okt. 2025 kl 10:47 skrev Giovanni Bechis <giovanni@paclan.it>:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> on my manifest I used to have entries like:
>> ensure_packages(['apache-httpd'], { ensure => 'latest' })
>> 
>> With Puppet 8 I have this regression:
>> Error: Failed to apply catalog: Parameter ensure failed on Package[apache-httpd]: Provider openbsd must have features 'upgradeable' to set 'ensure' to 'latest'
>> 
>> Is this something fixable ?
>> 
>> Versions are "7.8 GENERIC.MP#52 amd64" and "puppet-8.10.0p3"
>> 
>>  Thanks
>>   Giovanni
> 
> 
> 
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