I think John's probably right. My manifests are all written for
Ubuntu - which has a different set of package names for mysql:
mysql-server, mysql-client, etc.
Best
J.
2009/9/4 jcbollinger <john.bollin...@stjude.org>:
>
>
> On Sep 4, 1:46 am, Julian Simpson <simpsonjul...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> You need to tell Puppet to manage both a gem and an RPM. Adding
>> 'provider => gem' to the appropriate package declaration will do that.
>
>> 2009/9/4 Matt Delves <m.del...@ballarat.edu.au>:
>> > The problem is that I currently have the mysql package installed as an
>> > rpm via puppet, though I'm also wanting to use puppet to manage the
>> > mysql ruby gem. Unfortunately when I do this, puppet complains with the
>> > following error:
>> > ArgumentError: Duplicate definition: Package[mysql] is already defined
>>
>> > Is there a way to get around this?
>
> Do try Julian's suggestion first, but I suspect that it will not be
> sufficient. The root problem appears to be that you are using the
> same name for the RPM package resource and the gem package resource.
> I don't think Puppet will allow two resources of the same name and
> type, even if they have different providers. If you do need package
> name uniqueness then you *might* be able to arrange it like so:
>
> # Puppet should refer to this Package resource as "mysql-gem", whereas
> gem should consider the gem name to be "mysql". Maybe.
> package { "mysql-gem":
> name => "mysql"
> # Must specify the provider when it is not the system default:
> provider => "gem"
> [...]
> }
>
> If that doesn't work either then you might need custom code to get
> around the problem.
>
> Good luck.
>
>
> John
> >
>
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