On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Patrick <kc7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:58 PM, Giovanni Bordello wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm very new to Puppet and perhaps what I'm trying to do is a trivial
> thing. No so much for me though..
>
> I use Puppet 2.6 to manage a bunch of CentOS 5 servers. A handful of web
> servers, a handful of app-tier servers and a couple of other hosts - ldap,
> mail, etc.
>
> I've got a CentOS 5.5 repo on the Puppet/Kickstart server and install
> everything from there, obviously a slightly different package sets for each
> type of server.
>
> Now the question: can I use Puppet to fetch all the latest updates from the
> updates repo? I know how to configure the yum repo with Puppet but don't
> know how to trigger the update?
>
> Ideally something like:
> ensure => no-more-package-updates-available
> should do the trick :)
>
>
> Will make sure a package is installed:
> package { "mysql-server":
> ensure => present
> }
>
> Will make sure a package is always up to date with the package database.
> (Or depending on the provider, this might be the locally cached version of
> the package database):
> package { "mysql-server":
> ensure => latest
> }
> #Note: this may cause a large load on your package mirror if the provider
> checks if the package is up to date on each run. A local caching proxy or
> mirror is recommended.
>
With Centos, you can also use:
package {
ensure => "$version";
}
to make sure a specific version of an RPM is installed. I don't think that's
actually documented.
Doug.
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