Rpm

A cow-orker came to me with a puppet issue today. He was trying to remove a package from a fleet of RedHat servers, using ensure => absent in the package resource, but it was failing: Error: Execution of '/bin/rpm -e firefox' returned 1: error: "firefox" specifies multiple packages: firefox-78.9.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 firefox-78.9.0-1.el7_9.i686 Error: /Stage[main]/Profile::Base::Firefox/Package[firefox]/ensure: change from '78.9.0-1.el7_9' to 'absent' failed: Execution of '/bin/rpm -e firefox' returned 1: error: "firefox" specifies multiple packages: firefox-78.9.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 firefox-78.9.0-1.el7_9.i686 A quick search showed that rpm has an --allmatches option. From rpm(8): ...