[Bug]: 3006.26 on RHEL breaks installation of versioned packages with wildcard

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What happened?

After the update from 3006.25 to 3006.26, and only on our RHEL minions (not on the Debian minions), checking for pkg.installed with a versioned package dependency now fails:

[ERROR   ] Error occurred installing package(s). Additional info follows:

errors:
    - No version matching '10.4.0.1-*' found for package 'VRTSnbcfg.x86_64' (available: none)

This is based on a state like this:

netbackup_pkg:
  pkg.installed:
    - hold: True
    - update_holds: True
    - pkgs:
{%- if grains['os_family'] == 'Debian' %}
        - vrtsnbcfg:   "10.4.0.1-*"
        [...]
{% else %}
        - VRTSnbcfg:   "10.4.0.1-*"
        [...]
{% endif %}

The package in question is of course available:

[root@dasi03] 542 (~): dnf list VRTSnbcfg
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Last metadata expiration check: 1:05:43 ago on Tue 30 Jun 2026 12:52:59 PM CEST.
Installed Packages
VRTSnbcfg.x86_64                                                  10.4.0.1-1717258879                                                   @ZIB
Available Packages
VRTSnbcfg.x86_64                                                  11.0.0.0-1741653229                                                   ZIB

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)

rhel-8

salt --versions-report output

salt@salt:/$ salt --versions-report output
Salt Version:
          Salt: 3006.26

Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.20 (main, Jun 11 2026, 02:19:33) [GCC 11.2.0]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 2.0.0
      cherrypy: 18.10.0
  cryptography: 47.0.0
      dateutil: 2.9.0.post0
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: 4.0.12
     gitpython: 3.1.50
        Jinja2: 3.1.6
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.3.0
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.1.2
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 24.0
     pycparser: 3.00
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.23.0
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.5.6
        PyYAML: 6.0.3
         PyZMQ: 27.1.0
        relenv: 0.22.14
         smmap: 5.0.2
       timelib: 0.3.0
       Tornado: 6.5.5
           ZMQ: 4.3.5

System Versions:
          dist: debian 13.5 trixie
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 6.1.0-48-amd64
        system: Linux
       version: Debian GNU/Linux 13.5 trixie

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