On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Peter Meier <peter.me...@immerda.ch> wrote:
>
>
> > Now I am able to get puppet work for me in very first run. I had to do a
> > require => Exec["updateyum"] for every package installation in order to
> > ensure that the command yum update -y ran before package is being
> installed.
> > However this brings me to my initial question. Since I'd mentioned
> > exec{"updateyum": ....} before any package statement so had puppet some
> way
> > of ensuring serial execution of script I would have been saved from
> > mentioning it every time in package statements.
>
> you can shorten that by either wrap your package installation with a
> define, or define at the top:
>
> Package{ require => Exec["updateyum"] }
>
> which will introduce a global dependency on the Package resource on that
> exec. Note: afair if you set another dependency you will have to reset
> it. But it looks like this will be once for your setup.
>
> cheers pete
>
Thanks I'll wrap it up with a define and check it out again. Thanks to
everyone for valuable advises. I guess I'll be creating some better recipes
in coming days thanks to these advises :)
Regards,
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Mayank
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