Amazon Linux isn't quite RedHat

[gozer]

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Trying to use this module on Amazon Linux doesn't quite work, unfortunately.

class { 'python':
  version => 'system',
  pip     => true,
  dev     => true,
}

Yields:

$> puppet apply python.pp 
[...]
Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list python-pip' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list
Error: /Stage[main]/Python::Install/Package[python-pip]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list python-pip' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list
Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list python-devel' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list
Error: /Stage[main]/Python::Install/Package[python-devel]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list python-devel' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list
Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list python' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list
Error: /Stage[main]/Python::Install/Package[python]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y list python' returned 1: Error: No matching Packages to list
Notice: /Stage[main]/Python/Anchor[python::end]: Dependency Package[python-pip] has failures: true
Notice: /Stage[main]/Python/Anchor[python::end]: Dependency Package[python-devel] has failures: true
Notice: /Stage[main]/Python/Anchor[python::end]: Dependency Package[python] has failures: true
Warning: /Stage[main]/Python/Anchor[python::end]: Skipping because of failed dependencies

And the issue seems to come from the fact that on Amazon Linux, there is no 'python-devel' package, only packages like:

• python26-devel
• python27-devel
• python34-devel

With the python27* variants being the current default on Amazon Linux @ 2015.03

[danieljamesscott]

Is there a workaround for this? I'm trying to get the module working with Amazon's python27 packages.

[alexpekurovsky]

Add this to your site.pp (where you define which classes to include):

  Package {
    allow_virtual => true,
  }