Centos 6.6 and 7 - Cannot retrieve repository metadata

[dev-dull]

Affected Puppet, Ruby, OS and module versions/distributions

• Puppet: 4.4.1
• Ruby: 2.2.5
• Distribution: centos 6.6 and 7
• Module version: 2.0.1 (prod), 2.3.0 (bundle exec rake beaker)

How to reproduce (e.g Puppet code you use)

String $nodejs_version = '7.0.0'
class { '::nodejs':
repo_url_suffix => $nodejs_version,
}

What are you seeing

For Centos 7, the error displays the full URL which I've tested and is valid. The issue here appears that yum is looking for the repomd.xml metadata file, but can't find it because it exists in repodata/ subdirectory on the repository. I realize this likely falls into your, "not my problem" bucket, but I wanted to file a ticket here in case the issue is not as direct as it appears to be (and also in case you have a direct line to the Node team).

What behaviour did you expect instead

installed 7.0.0 via RPM repo.

Output log

Centos 6.6 error via beaker:
Notice: /Stage[main]/Nodejs::Repo::Nodesource::Yum/Yumrepo[nodesource-source]/ensure: created
Info: changing mode of /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource-source.repo from 600 to 644
Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install nodejs' returned 1: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: nodesource. Please verify its path and try again
Error: /Stage[main]/Nodejs::Install/Package[nodejs]/ensure: change from purged to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install nodejs' returned 1: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: nodesource. Please verify its path and try again

Any additional information you'd like to impart

[dev-dull]

Closing this issue. The fix here is to use '7.x' where '7.0.0' is currently being used. This had previously been tried, but I fell victim to a poorly timed 500 error from the RPM repo.

[bastelfreak]

ah, bad timing :D
thanks for reporting this!