[Bug]: pkg.installed warnings if python rpm module not installed #68341
Description
What happened?
On rpm based systems, if the python rpm module is not installed then salt prints the warning [WARNING ] Please install a package that provides rpm.labelCompare for more accurate version comparisons. If the rpmdevtools is installed then another warning is also printed [WARNING ] Installing the rpmdevtools package may surface dev tools in production., and the version comparisons are done by a slow process fork to the rpmdev-vercmp executable for every comparison.
Steps to Reproduce the behavior
cat /srv/salt/testing.sls <<'EOF'
pkg1:
pkg.installed:
- pkgs:
- hyphen: '2.8.8'
EOFsalt-call --local state.apply testing$ sudo salt-call --local state.apply
[WARNING ] Please install a package that provides rpm.labelCompare for more accurate version comparisons.
[WARNING ] Installing the rpmdevtools package may surface dev tools in production.
[WARNING ] Please install a package that provides rpm.labelCompare for more accurate version comparisons.
[WARNING ] Installing the rpmdevtools package may surface dev tools in production.
local:
----------
ID: pkg1
Function: pkg.installed
Result: True
Comment: All specified packages are already installed and are at the desired version
Started: 20:35:03.742366
Duration: 1274.975 ms
Changes:
Summary for local
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Succeeded: 1
Failed: 0
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Total states run: 1
Total run time: 1.275 sExpected behavior
There should be no warnings when using pkg.installed state and should not fallback to slow process forking for comparison.
Type of salt install
Official rpm
Major version
3006.x
What supported OS are you seeing the problem on? Can select multiple. (If bug appears on an unsupported OS, please open a GitHub Discussion instead)
rockylinux-9, rockylinux-10, rhel-8, rhel-9
salt --versions-report output
Salt Version:
Salt: 3006.15
Python Version:
Python: 3.10.18 (main, Aug 27 2025, 22:35:38) [GCC 11.2.0]
Dependency Versions:
cffi: 1.14.6
cherrypy: 18.10.0
cryptography: 42.0.5
dateutil: 2.8.1
docker-py: Not Installed
gitdb: Not Installed
gitpython: Not Installed
Jinja2: 3.1.6
libgit2: Not Installed
looseversion: 1.0.2
M2Crypto: Not Installed
Mako: Not Installed
msgpack: 1.0.2
msgpack-pure: Not Installed
mysql-python: Not Installed
packaging: 24.0
pycparser: 2.21
pycrypto: Not Installed
pycryptodome: 3.19.1
pygit2: Not Installed
python-gnupg: 0.4.8
PyYAML: 6.0.1
PyZMQ: 23.2.0
relenv: 0.20.5
smmap: Not Installed
timelib: 0.3.0
Tornado: 4.5.3
ZMQ: 4.3.4
System Versions:
dist: rocky 10.0 Red Quartz
locale: utf-8
machine: x86_64
release: 6.12.0-55.32.1.el10_0.x86_64
system: Linux
version: Rocky Linux 10.0 Red Quartz