In general, it seems like the best way to handle "must go first"
bootstrap items like that is with environments. (We haven't gotten
there yet, but we're moving in that direction.)
New node comes up in environment bootstrap, where there is a generic
definition and 1 class that just grabs the bare minimum to make
everything else work. (In our case, that is mostly just the ldap
configuration so that future runs find the users they want.) Then they
update the puppet config to move to a new environment, and the new
environment can ignore all the weird dependencies.
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Douglas Garstang
<doug.garst...@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Quite simply, how do I GUARANTEE that my repos are done FIRST followed
> by any mandatory packages like yum and yum-priorities?
>
> Doug.
>
> >
>
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