Amazon Linux 2 Doesn't Seem Supported (can't find "python27" package)

[glajchs]

When trying to use our existing cookbooks to do a chef install of an Amazon Linux 2 machine (https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/release-notes/) using AMI (ami-b70554c8), we hit an issue where the poise-python package was trying to install an RPM with the name "python27", when there is no RPM with that name in the repo. For this version of the OS, the "python" package is already version 2.7. I was able to eventually get my install past this error by modifying the chef file locally and re-running with sudo chef-client --skip-cookbook-sync. In source, the file I modified is lib/poise_python/python_providers/system.rb, and I changed the "amazon" line to ready amazon: {default: %w{python}},.

I'm not sure, but I think maybe there needs to be detection support for amazon linux 2, and change the package names.

The error I got while installing is pasted here.
poise-python-beaver-install-issue.txt

As you can see, it's actually the "beaver" package that's trying to install python here, but all the beaver package does is run python_runtime 'beaver' using the following attributes: default['poise-python']['beaver']['provider'] = 'system' default['poise-python']['beaver']['version'] = '2'