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First time I run foreman-installer --scenario katello. I get this error:

Error 1: Puppet Package resource 'katello' failed. Logs:
  /Package[katello]
    Starting to evaluate the resource (167 of 1429)
    Evaluated in 3.71 seconds
  Package[katello](provider=dnf)
    Ensuring => present
  /Stage[main]/Katello/Package[katello]/ensure
    change from 'purged' to 'present' failed: Execution of '/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install katello' returned 1: Error: 
 Problem: package katello-4.11.1-1.el8.noarch from katello requires candlepin >= 2.0, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package candlepin-4.3.1-1.el8.noarch from candlepin requires pki-servlet-engine, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package candlepin-4.3.12-1.el8.noarch from candlepin requires pki-servlet-engine, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best candidate for the job
  - package pki-servlet-engine-1:9.0.7-16.module+el8.1.0+3366+6dfb954c.noarch from rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rhui-rpms is filtered out by modular filtering
  - package pki-servlet-engine-1:9.0.30-1.module+el8.3.0+6730+8f9c6254.noarch from rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rhui-rpms is filtered out by modular filtering
  - package pki-servlet-engine-1:9.0.30-3.module+el8.5.0+11388+9e95fe00.noarch from rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rhui-rpms is filtered out by modular filtering
  - package pki-servlet-engine-1:9.0.50-1.module+el8.7.0+15761+f86c9a56.noarch from rhui-rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rhui-rpms is filtered out by modular filtering

Relevant log lines

2024-03-13 15:50:38 [DEBUG ] [configure] /Stage[main]/Candlepin::Install/Package[pki-core]/before: before to Package[candlepin]
2024-03-13 15:51:50 [DEBUG ] [configure] Package[katello](provider=dnf): Ensuring => present
2024-03-13 15:51:53 [ERROR ] [configure] Execution of '/bin/dnf -d 0 -e 1 -y install katello' returned 1: Error:
2024-03-13 15:52:28 [DEBUG ] [configure] Executing: '/usr/bin/dnf module enable -d 0 -e 1 -y pki-core'

So puppet knows that Package[candlepin] needs Package[pki-core]. However, Package[katello] will install candlepin due to rpm dependencies, which will fail because puppet did not know to install Package[pki-core] before Package[katello].

The second time I ran foreman-installer it worked, because pki-core had been installed after katello failed.

Suggestion: Set up puppet to install pki-core before katello.