On Dec 22, 12:36 am, "Tony G." <tony...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running it manually I got: > > 1. /usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install nrpe_custom-01.1-10 > Package matching nrpe_custom-01.1-10.x86_64 already installed. Checking for > update. > > Which is not true, but for some reason yum "believes" it is already > installed
Do you have both i386 and x86_64 versions of the package installed? Perhaps different versions of the two? Puppet does not account very well for packages that differ only in architecture. In any case, if yum's response there is indeed erroneous then you should work out your yum problems before continuing to wrangle Puppet. > Then Puppet after matching the versions complains with the Error saying the > update didn't happen. > > From my point of view this is an issue with yum that is not installing the > version defined in puppet. And if it is indeed a yum failure, then we can't be much help here. Indeed, having followed the thread up to now, I don't think I need to qualify that: there's not much we can do for you. These are some of the factors in play: 1) By default, yum does not support package downgrading. You need to install a plugin AND provide appropriate command line options to persuade it to downgrade packages. 2) Regardless of your yum plugins, Puppet is not issuing the options that would be needed to enable downgrading. 3) Downgrading isn't especially safe in general. > My concern is that Puppet states that the handling of packages via yum is > versionable > <http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/TypeReference#id70>(*The > provider is capable of interrogating the package database for installed > version(s), and can select which out of a set of available versions of a > package to install if asked*), which I assumed puppet will find the way to > exec yum to update *or downgrade* as in this case, but I guess I took that > too literal, and perhaps that is the definition of what a versionable > package handler as YUM does, but not exactly with Puppet. Yes, I think you read too much into that. I also think that Puppet could provide better support than it currently does. For instance, it could perhaps add an "allow_downgrade" parameter to the package type that, for the yum provider, would cause "--allow-downgrade" to be added to the yum command line. I'm not sure what that would have to do for other versionable package providers, though. > > Wish I'll be wrong, but seems like I won't be able to downgrade packages via > yum. Supposing that you mean "via Puppet", I suspect you're right for now. Perhaps you would consider filing a feature request ticket? Best, John -- 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.
