On Jun 28, 2010, at 10:32 PM, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> So... somehow on a previous implementation, I was able to set
> everything up so that all my yum repo's where in place before any
> packages got installed. I'm not exactly sure how I did it due to
> puppet's awful scoping.
This really isn't a good way to get help in a list where you can assume most
people like puppet.
> Now that I am trying to do it again, it ain't
> working.
>
> I put a:
>
> Package {
> provider => yum,
> require => [ Class['yum::client'], Exec["yum-clean-all"] ]
> }
>
> in site.pp, where yum::client installs the repo's, but puppet then
> bitches about cyclic dependancies. Is there a way to do this?
I assume that Class['yum::client'] is installing a package, or calling an exec
that depends on a package.
Find it like this:
http://bitfieldconsulting.com/puppet-dependency-graphs
The explicitly set the require line for the resource to remove the implicit
dependency.
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