pygit2 | Python bindings for libgit2

The requisites that we mention, such as require, watch, etc. should be references to other states that are "scheduled" to run on the targets.

About watch

Even though the path is created by installing the "realvnc" package, there is no Salt state to handle the path. That is why it is showing the error.

Quoting from documentation for watch:

A watch requisite is used to add additional behavior when there are changes in other states.

So if you want to watch on a file, then there should be a state that "handles" the file using the file module.

About require

Also, while specifying require you are referring to pkg module, so Saltstack would look for pkg.installed for realvnc. Whereas you are using chocolatey.installed.

So with below modifications it should work fine.

The documentation seems to be pretty clear on this:

Repository.status() → {str: int}

Reads the status of the repository and returns a dictionary with file paths as keys and status flags as values. See pygit2.GIT_STATUS_*.

And here you have em: https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2/blob/320ee5e733039d4a3cc952b287498dbc5737c353/src/pygit2.c#L312-L320

Solved: libgit2 dropped support for Windows XP from v. 0.21.0

refs/remotes/origin/master is not a branch. All branches start with refs/heads/:

Low-level checkout is git read-tree -um HEAD $target && git update-ref HEAD $target; pygit2 apparently understands only the one-tree read and none of the options on that, so however it's doing checkout and merge and any number of other operations it doesn't offer more than a crude mock-up of actual git. It looks like you could kludge it with add a ref to your commit, check that out, then reset HEAD and delete the ref.

In your provider.d file, try using "driver" instead of "provider", similar to the salt-cloud quick start.

This page notes that this field was changed some years ago.

Changed in version 2015.8.0.

The provider parameter in cloud provider definitions was renamed to driver. This change was made to avoid confusion with the provider parameter that is used in cloud profile definitions. Cloud provider definitions now use driver to refer to the Salt cloud module that provides the underlying functionality to connect to a cloud host, while cloud profiles continue to use provider to refer to provider configurations that you define.

Here's how I was able to make it work. I don't mean to indicate that this is the absolute best way to implement this, but I hope it serves as a good example for someone in the future.

Well in case you haven't figured it out yet that line says it all:

I have discovered that the error has nothing to do with the installed Python libraries or if my system is updated or not. I found that I did not have an SMTP server set up and that I need to create an SMTP mail server or have an accessible SMTP mail server in order to send emails as notifications of the reactor system. I discovered that the solution was to set up an SMTP mail server and then create a .conf file in the /etc/salt/minion.d directory that referenced an SMTP mail server like so: