Try purged instead of absent. :)
Silviu On 04.12.2009 18:15, asparks wrote: > I'm trying to write a recipe that will remove ppp from systems. I've > tried this in various ways (listing only ppp, listing ppp and > dependent packages (like NetworkManager and NetworkManager-glib), > using an array of the names... > > But Puppet attempts to use an rpm command on each package > independently, and gets foiled by the fact that the dependencies won't > allow the packages to be removed individually: > > Dec 4 11:08:12 ny4d-dev02 puppetd[3495]: (//common/Package[ppp]/ > ensure) change from 2.4.4-2.el5 to absent failed: Execution of '/bin/ > rpm -e ppp-2.4.4-2.el5.x86_64' returned 1: error: Failed > dependencies: ppp>= 2.2.4 is needed by (installed) > NetworkManager-0.7.0-9.el5.i386 ppp>= 2.2.4 is needed by > (installed) NetworkManager-0.7.0-9.el5.x86_64 > Dec 4 11:08:12 ny4d-dev02 puppetd[3495]: (//common/Package > [NetworkManager-glib]/ensure) change from 0.7.0-9.el5 to absent > failed: Execution of '/bin/rpm -e NetworkManager- > glib-0.7.0-9.el5.i386' returned 1: error: Failed dependencies: > libnm_glib.so.0 is needed by (installed) > NetworkManager-0.7.0-9.el5.i386 > Dec 4 11:08:13 ny4d-dev02 puppetd[3495]: (//common/Package > [NetworkManager]/ensure) change from 0.7.0-9.el5 to absent failed: > Execution of '/bin/rpm -e NetworkManager-0.7.0-9.el5.x86_64' returned > 1: error: Failed dependencies: libnm-util.so.1()(64bit) is needed > by (installed) NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-9.el5.x86_64 > > How can I tell Puppet to either use a "yum -y remove" to remove ppp, > and therefore get dependent packages removed as well -- or at least > tell Puppet it has to remove all packages at once to get past the > dependency cycle? > > Thanks in advance. > -Alan > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
