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jghodd

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Registered: 2013-02-10

Posts: 165

puppet and hiera

The latest update wants to replace hiera with puppet, which is fine, except that the update doesn't work. If you have hiera installed, but not puppet, the system update will attempt to install puppet to replace hiera.

This is the issue.

I went ahead and downloaded the puppet source, just to see if a rebuild against the current hiera package would fix it. That's when I noticed an issue within the PKGBUILD. Seems puppet not only replaces hiera, and is in conflict with hiera, but it also *depends* on hiera - you absolutely can't have it set up this way. I should hope that my description is all the explanation needed for anyone who knows how PKGBUILDs work. The three conditions of replace, conflict and depends are not compatible when set to the same package name.

Maybe that hiera entry in 'depends' needs to move to make-depends...

WorMzy

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Re: puppet and hiera

Please file a bug report against the puppet package, the maintainer is unlikely to see this.

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jghodd

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Registered: 2013-02-10

Posts: 165

Re: puppet and hiera

Can do.

I have confirmed, btw, that moving hiera from depends to make-depends in the puppet PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO does in fact resolve this issue.

jghodd

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Registered: 2013-02-10

Posts: 165

Re: puppet and hiera

Well, apparently I cannot file a bug report since bugs.archlinux.org no longer accepts my login, nor will it process a forgotten password (which should not be forgotten since logins and passwords are conveniently squirreled away and reused). Not sure what y'all did to shut that down, but you're not even allowing new accounts - not that I should need one.

jghodd

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Registered: 2013-02-10

Posts: 165

Re: puppet and hiera

OK, well, I leave this resolution here in the forum for all users to find since so many will find their updates are broken. There is, apparently, no way to contact the maintainer, since access to gitlab.archlinux.org appears to be fubar.   Hope everyone who needs this fix finds this.

For those who don't want to bother with the build, here's the working rebuild: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bluest … kg.tar.zst

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: puppet and hiera

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/3

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