On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:08 AM, James Cammarata wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:42:12 -0600, Carl Caum <carl.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Make extra sure that's true. I found it won't give you an error but the
>> package still won't always be installed.
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2010, at 12:05 PM, James Cammarata wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:50:41 -0600, Carl Caum <carl.c...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Unfortunately even the yum provider sucks at this too. It may have
> been
>>>> fixed recently, but I don't think so since the problem exists in how
> rpm
>>>> reports back queries for available packages. I have to solve this with
>>> an
>>>> exec. . You could do something similar to:
>>>>
>>>> exec {"install libacl.i386":
>>>> command => "up2date --arch i386 libacl",
>>>> onlyif => "rpm -qa libacl.i386 | grep 'libacl' ";
>>>> }
>
> Right, the above onlyif isn't perfect. It needs to be more like this:
>
> onlyif => "rpm -q --qf='%{NAME}.%{ARCH}\n' libacl | grep -q
> 'libacl.x86_64'"
>
> Otherwise, RPM outputs something like this:
>
> $ rpm -q libacl
> libacl-2.2.23-5.3.el4
>
> Which has no arch on it. Note that you don't have to use -qa and then
> grep, that's slow. You can just do -q <package name> which is much faster
> (especially if you have a lot of RPMs installed). This also works on
> packages that have multiple arches:
>
> $ rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}.%{ARCH}\n' tcp_wrappers
> tcp_wrappers.x86_64
> tcp_wrappers.i386
>
> So now I just need to set this up so it's transparent between RHEL4-5...
Sweet. Thanks. I've never bothered to become a RPM master since I switched to
administering RHEL based systems. At some point I'll break down and do it ;)
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