Rudder

Technique 'Package management for RHEL / CentOS / SuSE / RPM systems' is not able to update a package is a version has not be set. The reports sents are all "Success", which is worst.

In fact, in CFEngine, the use of package type promise to update a package without version doesn't work, which is the issue we've got there.

Here is an example with rudder-agent without version:
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cf3> Package version was not specified
cf3> Looking for (rudder-agent,*,*)
cf3> Matched name 'rudder-agent'
cf3> Matched version *
cf3> Looking for (rudder-agent,*,*)
cf3> Matched name 'rudder-agent'
cf3> Matched version *
cf3> Additional promise info: source path '/root/machin.cf' at line 32 comment 'Handling rudder-agent using generic_nobulk, policy : update'
cf3> Package 'rudder-agent' already installed and matches criteria
Automatically promoting context scope for 'rpm_package_installation_rudder_agent_kept' to namespace visibility, due to persistence
cf3> Defining persistent promise result class 'rpm_package_installation_rudder_agent_kept'
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Using a false version will lead to always try to update the package which will create repaired classes:

[...]
cf3> Package version specified explicitly in promise body
cf3> Looking for (rudder-agent,*,*)
cf3> Matched name 'rudder-agent'
cf3> Matched version *
cf3> Looking for (rudder-agent,latest,*)
cf3> Matched name 'rudder-agent'
cf3> Check for compatible versioning model in (2.10.3.release-1.EL.6,latest)
cf3> Verified that versioning models are compatible
cf3> Checking whether package version 2.10.3.release-1.EL.6 == latest: no
cf3> No installed packages matched (rudder-agent,latest,*)
cf3> Checking if package (rudder-agent,latest,*) is at the desired state (installed=1,matched=0)
cf3> Package promises to refer to itself as 'rudder-agent' to the manager
cf3> Package version seems to match criteria
cf3> Checking if latest available version is newer than installed...
cf3> Looking for an installed package older than (rudder-agent,latest,*)
cf3> Found installed package (rudder-agent,2.10.3.release-1.EL.6,x86_64)
cf3> Check for compatible versioning model in (2.10.3.release-1.EL.6,latest)
cf3> Verified that versioning models are compatible
cf3> Checking whether package version 2.10.3.release-1.EL.6 < latest: yes
cf3> Installed package (rudder-agent,2.10.3.release-1.EL.6,x86_64) is older than latest available (rudder-agent,latest,*) - updating
cf3> Schedule package for update
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