On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:56 AM, Daniel Maher wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have run into problems in the past where a package has been added to our 
> yum repository, and a (new) class has been pushed to install that package, 
> but puppet fails because the yum db on the target machine is too stale, and 
> thus isn't aware of the existence of the new package.
> 
> My question is this : what have other Puppet admins done in order to ensure 
> that a target machine has the freshest local dbcache before attempting to 
> install a package ?
> 
> Thank you.

What ever you do, you will probably want to make sure you have a caching proxy 
server (or an on site mirror) between your clients and the yum server.

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