TEST Satellite: After migrating to v6.4 I see PUPPET 'stdlib' issues

Environment

• Satellite 6.4
• Puppet

Issue

• I have just created by first systems (using PXE) in our TEST network since upgrading the satellite server to v6.4
• When I attempt to run the 'puppet agent' I get the following message:-

# puppet agent -t
Info: Using configured environment 'KT_ACME_Development_CCV_RHEL7_11'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Retrieving locales
Info: Loading facts
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Evaluation Error: Resource type not found: Stdlib::Filemode (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/KT_ACME_Development_CCV_RHEL7_11/modules/logrotate/manifests/init.pp, line: 14, column: 3) on node satellite.example.com
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

# puppet agent -t --tags=motd
Info: Using configured environment 'KT_ACME_Development_CCV_RHEL7_11'
Info: Retrieving pluginfacts
Info: Retrieving plugin
Info: Retrieving locales
Info: Loading facts
Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Resource Statement, Evaluation Error: Resource type not found: Stdlib::Filemode (file: /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/KT_ACME_Development_CCV_RHEL7_11/modules/logrotate/manifests/init.pp, line: 14, column: 3) on node satellite.example.com
Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run

Resolution

There are two options:

• Update stdlib in basemodulepath directory, which will provide required version to all environments as below

# puppet module install puppetlabs-stdlib --target-dir /usr/share/puppet/modules/

• Use the appropriate version of stdlib for every CV.

For more KB articles/solutions related to Red Hat Satellite 6.x Puppet Issues, please refer to the Red Hat Satellite Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Puppet Issues

Root Cause

• According to documentation for Content from forge.puppet.com is not included.logrotate puppet module has stdlib as dependency.
• Because of that stdlib always needed to be available.
• Satellite provides stdlib in version 4.2.1 which is located in /usr/share/puppet/modules.
• This directory is also set as basemodulepath, which means all modules from this directory is available to all evnironments.
• The main issue here seems to be that logrotate in its latest version require stdlib in versions (>= 4.22.0 < 6.0.0).

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