saltstack/salt — Issue #809: highstate reports Error on attempting to install virtual packages on Debian
Author: blast-hardcheese
Created: 2012-03-01 20:12:35+00:00
State: open

Unfortunately, this is probably due to how virtual packages work. Virtual packages don't have an installed state themselves, but they depend/recommend various packages. To check whether or not a virtual package is installed, we should probably just check the state of all virtual package dependencies. This might also apply to Yum package groups, but I'm less familiar with those.