[Puppet Users] require => Package['name'] directive is not working as expected

cron { puppet:
command => "/usr/sbin/puppetd --onetime --no-daemonize --verbose
--server puppet.example.com",
user => root,
hour => '*',
minute => '*/15',
require => Package[vixie-cron],
}

--server puppet.example.com
info: Caching catalog for client.example.com
err: Failed to apply catalog: Could not find a default provider for cron

--server puppet.example.com
info: Caching catalog for client.example.com
info: Applying configuration version '1349664487'
notice: /Stage[main]/Base/Package[vixie-cron]/ensure: created
notice: Finished catalog run in 4.37 seconds

package { vixie-cron: ensure => installed, }

cron { puppet:
command => "/usr/sbin/puppetd --onetime --no-daemonize --verbose
--server puppet.example.com",
user => root,
hour => '*',
minute => '*/15',
require => Package[vixie-cron],
}

[root@client ~]# /usr/sbin/puppetd --onetime --no-daemonize --verbose
--server puppet.example.com
info: Caching catalog for client.example.com
err: Failed to apply catalog: Could not find a default provider for cron

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Basil Kurian wrote:
I have this definition added in one of my class files



But i 'm getting the error that

This was fixed in #6907 <http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6907> and
released in puppet 2.7.8

wrote:
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Basil Kurian <basilkurian@gmail.com>
wrote:
cron

I remember running into this as well.
http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/11362 looks relevant but links
to a closed bug at http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6907. I
didn't bother looking into it much beyond that; I just made sure that
when our RHEL boxes were kickstarted, that vixie-cron was installed
prior to the puppet client's first run.

By the looks of #6907 though, it looks like this is expected to work,
so it might be worth opening a ticket to have that investigated. I'll
see if I can reproduce on a VM here today.

Thanks,

Matt.

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On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Basil Kurian wrote:

Now it is clear. The client that I'm using is a lower version one.

[root@client ~]# rpm -qa | grep puppet
puppet-2.6.17-2.el5