Hi Guys,
I'm trying to use puppet to remove some software on all our machines. The two
rpm's I'm trying to remove are dependent on each other, that is rpm A requires
rpm B and rpm B requires rpm A.
The packages installed fine with puppet via yum (I just asked to install rpm
A). Unfortunately puppet is calling "rpm -e", not "yum remove" to remove
packages so just asking to remove rpm A causes a dependency error. I tried
using "provider => yum" in the package definition but this was ignored.
To get round this I specified both packages: "package { [rpmA,rpmB]: ensure =>
absent }". Unfortunately this doesn't work either. It appears puppet is running:
for package in packages:
rpm -e package
As opposed to:
rpm -e " ".join(packages)
(no prizes for guessing what language I am most familiar with :)
Consequently I am unable to use puppet to remove this package. I cant easily
resort to an exec statement as I am doing the following:
class software{
package{ [a,b]: ensure => present }
}
class software::uninstall{
package{ [a,b]: ensure => absent }
}
As this allows me per-node control over the removal.
I'm using puppet 0.24.8 on rhel5.3.
Can I get round this, or should I file a bug report?
-ross
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