[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#781231: Bug#781231: err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Unsupported osfamily (Debian) or lsbdistid () at /usr/share/puppet/modules/apt/manifests/params.pp:39

[Russ Allbery]

Control: severity -1 important

Christoph Berg <christoph.berg at credativ.de> writes:

> The Apt module seems to require the presence of the $lsbdistid fact,
> which is only available when lsb-release is installed. Neither
> puppet-module-puppetlabs-apt, puppet, nor facter have a Dependency (or
> any weaker relation) on that.

puppet-common Recommends lsb-release for exactly this sort of reason, so
it will be installed on Puppet clients in a default configuration.

It's long been the case that you probably want to install lsb-release on
any system on which you're running Puppet, or you'll be missing a pile of
pretty significant facts that are widely used in Puppet manifests.  We
started doing that at Stanford back in the 0.20 days.

I agree that the module should be more robust, and would be happy to see
this fixed prior to the release if possible, but I don't think this is
release-critical.  (Meaning that I don't think we should remove this
package from the release if no one gets to this.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>