[Bug 1593749] Re: puppet apply with pip provider gives 403 error

[Brian Wong]

My colleagues ran into this issue yesterday and I think we tracked it
down to a hardcoded method of retrieving the 'latest' for a pip package
on old versions of the puppet agent. See this commit and line number at:

https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/commit/152299cc859fc74343c697841848086d4e41b6f8
#diff-41bbce95c82bdc373da03bb2f6116ef5L70

What we ended up doing was hardcoding the version of the pip packages in
our package resource declarations that used the pip provider. We did
this as a short-term workaround until we can upgrade Puppet to a newer
version that did not have this hardcoded mechanism.

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Title:
  puppet apply with pip provider gives 403 error

Status in dbus package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since some time on 16/06/2016 Puppet manifests that use the "pip"
  provider to manage Python packages are failing with a 403 error, on
  (at least) Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS, when processed using "puppet apply...".

  puppet version is 3.4.3-1ubuntu1.1
  python-pip version is 1.5.4-1ubuntu3
  python version is 2.7.5-5ubuntu3

  On the command line:

  pip install --upgrade rarfile

  returns:

  Requirement already up-to-date: rarfile in /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
  Cleaning up...

  However, creating init.pp containing:

  package { 'rarfile':
    ensure   => 'latest',
    provider => 'pip',
  }

  and running:

  puppet apply ./init.pp

  returns:

  Notice: Compiled catalog for narsaq.isys.bris.ac.uk in environment production in 0.01 seconds
  Error: Could not get latest version: HTTP-Error: 403 Must access using HTTPS instead of HTTP
  Error: /Stage[main]/Main/Package[rarfile]/ensure: change from 2.8 to latest failed: Could not get latest version: HTTP-Error: 403 Must access using HTTPS instead of HTTP
  Notice: Finished catalog run in 1.05 seconds

  This was previously working.

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