Hello Tim,
Yum also supports specifying priorities and exclusions per repo. :)
The puppet yum repo type also lets you configure these settings.
Gary
On Dec 31, 3:26 am, "Tim Harper" <timchar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a breadcrumb for someone who runs into this themselves.
>
> I ran into an issue where I had the mysql-percona rpm's in a yum repository,
> so yum was selecting MySQL-percona-devel when told to install mysql-devel.
> I needed to pass the -x parameter to yum to get around it.
> I created a module to extend yum and give me the option to pass custom
> parameters:
>
> #
> /etc/puppet/modules/package_plus_plugins/puppet/provider/package/yum_plus.rb
> Puppet::Type.type(:package).provide :yum_plus, :parent => :yum, :source =>
> :rpm do
> desc "Support via ``yum``."
>
> commands :yum_plus => "yum"
>
> def yum(*args)
> yum_plus(*args + @resource[:vendor].split(" "))
> end
> end
>
> # then, in my manifest:
> package { ["mysql", "mysql-devel"]: ensure => present, provider => yum_plus,
> vendor => "-x *percona*" }
>
> Criticisms / peer review welcome.
>
> Tim
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