'puppet module install' dependency issues

[danjng]

Hello,

I'm encountering some issues when installing Puppet modules from a master that is pointing to my Internal Forge Server. Here's a quick log of what happens:

[root@yyy~]# puppet module install garethr/docker --debug
Debug: Runtime environment: puppet_version=3.7.4 (Puppet Enterprise 3.7.2), ruby_version=1.9.3, run_mode=user, default_encoding=UTF-8
Notice: Preparing to install into /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/production/modules ...
Notice: Downloading from http://xxx:8082 ...
Debug: HTTP GET http://xxx:8082/v3/releases?module=garethr-docker&module_groups=base+pe_only
Debug: HTTP GET http://xxx:8082/v3/releases?module=puppetlabs-stdlib&module_groups=base+pe_only
Debug: HTTP GET http://xxx:8082/v3/releases?module=puppetlabs-apt&module_groups=base+pe_only
Debug: HTTP GET http://xxx:8082/v3/releases?module=stahnma-epel&module_groups=base+pe_only
Info: Resolving dependencies ...
Error: Could not install module 'garethr-docker' (???)
  No version of 'garethr-docker' can satisfy all dependencies
    Use `puppet module install --ignore-dependencies` to install only this module
[root@yyy~]# puppet module list | grep std
└── puppetlabs-stdlib (v3.2.2)
[root@yyy~]# puppet module list | grep apt
├── puppetlabs-apt (v1.5.0)
[root@yyy~]# puppet module list | grep epel
└── stahnma-epel (v1.1.1)

So it says it can't satisfy all dependencies... But they're clearly installed. Any ideas why this would be happening?

[tuxmea]

Are you sure that you have installed the docker module in your local forge server?

[tulleuchen]

I've found that this works only if I change the metadata.json dependency notation from author-module to author/module. So for instance puppet-yum would change to puppet/yum. This is only for the dependencies and not the name section of the file. This way the puppet forge server works well as expected and so does a command like
puppet module list --tree so you don't get those "UNMET DEPENDENCY" issues.