On 10/24/2009 11:25 AM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
>
> Oh boy. Puppet is frustrating the heck out of me.
> I have this below....
>
> node tst_basenode {
>
> include yum
>
> Package {
> require => [
> Yumrepo["CentOS-Base"],
> Yumrepo["EPEL-Core"],
> ...
> ]
> }
> }
>
> node tst_childnode inherits tst_basenode {
> include ldap_client
> }
>
> This generally seems to work, making sure that my yum repo's are in
> place before anything else is done. However, I saw that the
> yum-priorities rpm was being installed way later, and it needs to be
> up there with yum, done initially. So, I added a
> package["yum-priorities"] to require=> in that default package
> definition in the base node and puppet claimed that it found
> dependancy cycles. ARGH!
>
> Actually, if you think about it, there's no guarantee as to when yum
> is installed either. It just happens to already be installed because
> this is CentOS, but if it wasn't installed, yum might get installed
> later, which would break everything.
I'm fairly certain that yum is considered a core package on CentOS, so you
should be able to rely on it being there. Besides, if yum isn't installed,
how do you expect to install it?
That said, if you still want your manifest to reflect yum, adding
require => undef
to the yum package definition may work.
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